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<td bgcolor="#cccccc"><span class="style1" style="margin-left:5px">sys_clock_gettime <span class="style2">[kernel/posix-timers.c] </span></span></td>
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<td><p style="margin-left:22px;margin-top:0px"><br />
Gets specific clock' time.</p>
<p style="margin-left:10px"><strong>Arguments</strong></p>
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<td width="6%" valign="top"><em>eax</em></td>
<td width="94%">265</td>
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<td valign="top"><em>ebx</em></td>
<td>Clock identifier. It may be one of the following values (as of kernel version 2.6.17):
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<td><code>CLOCK_REALTIME - Systemwide realtime clock. <br />
CLOCK_MONOTONIC - Represents monotonic time. Cannot be set. <br />
CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID - High resolution per process timer. <br />
CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID - Thread specific timer. </code></td>
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<td valign="top"><em>ecx</em></td>
<td>Pointer to a <em>timespec</em> structure:
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<td><code>struc timespec
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{<br />
tv_sec rd 1 ; seconds<br />
tv_nsec rd 1 ; nanoseconds<br />
}</code></td>
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<p style="margin-left:10px" ><strong>Return values</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:22px;margin-right:10px" >If the system call succeeds the return value is 0<br />
If the system call fails the return value is one of the following <em>errno</em> values:</p>
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<td width="10%"><code>-EINVAL</code></td>
<td width="90%">An invalid value in <em>ebx</em> was specified. </td>
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<td valign="top"><code>-EFAULT</code></td>
<td>Cannot copy the structure specified by <em>ecx</em> to kernel space. </td>
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<p style="margin-left:10px"><strong>Remarks</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:22px">n/a</p>
<p style="margin-left:10px"><strong>Compatibility</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left:22px">n/a<span class="style4"></span></p>
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