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- From: lee@luke.rsg.hac.com (C. Lee)
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- Subject: how to interrogate ftimer status from a program?
- Summary: how to interrogate ftimer status from a program?
- Message-ID: <23907@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 23:15:46 GMT
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- Organization: Hughes Transportation Simulation Center; Culver City, CA
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- From the shell, I can type /etc/ftimer to see the status of the fast
- clock. From a program, how can I find out the status of the fast
- clock?
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- Also, man ftimer says enabling and using fast itimers increases system
- overhead. What about enabling the fast clock?
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- Thanks.
-