CLOCK_SETTIME
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NAME
clock_settime - Set the specified clockSYNOPSIS
- long sys_clock_settime (clockid_t which_clock, const struct timespec *tp);
DESCRIPTION
clock_settime sets the specified clock, which_clock, to the value specified by tp. The values that clockid_t currently supports for POSIX.1b timers, defined in include/linux/time.h, are:
- CLOCK_REALTIME
- Systemwide realtime clock.
- CLOCK_MONOTONIC
- Represents monotonic time. Cannot be set.
- CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID
- High resolution per-process timer.
- CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID
- Thread-specific timer.
RETURN VALUE
clock_gettime returns 0 on success; otherwise, it returns one of the errors listed in the "Errors" section.
ERRORS
- -EINVAL
- An invalid which_clock value was specified.
- -EFAULT
- Can not copy tp value to kernel space.
SEE ALSO
clock_getres(2), clock_nanosleep(2), clock_gettime(2)
AUTHOR
Niki Rahimi
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