Re: [9fans] Is POSIX:clock_gettime(2) in APE somewhere/anywhere?

[ori@eigenstate.org]

Quoth tlaronde@polynum.com:
> Hello,
> 
> LaTeX now requires primitives (extensions) that are not provided by TeX
> nor e-TeX.
> 
> I have hence developed a new engine: Prote, that adds the required
> extensions and that will be the main target for the future enhancements.
> 
> (The main purpose is to have one and only one engine, TeX compatible,
> e-TeX compatible and LaTeX compatible, with only libc requirements and
> BSD like licence, in order to set TeX as the OSes typographical engine.)
> 
> Amongst the extensions I had to add, there are two bits that go beyond
> ISO C libc. One is a way to get elapsed time and unfortunately clock(3)
> is not the answer. I then used POSIX.1:clock_gettime(2) with CLOCK_MONOTONIC
> or CLOCK_REALTIME if the previous is not defined.
> 
> But is clock_gettime(2) available in APE in any instance of Plan9 or is
> there a routine achieving the same purpose?
> 

Currently, no. It can be added without too much
trouble, though we'd need to create /dev/monotime
to get properly monotonic time.


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