Re: How [non]standard is gettimeofday?

From: Fred Ma (fma_at_doe.carleton.ca)
Date: 11/20/03 

Date: 20 Nov 2003 03:09:44 GMT

Floyd Davidson wrote:
>
> Fred Ma <fma@doe.carleton.ca> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I was trying to make sure that my code is
> >not dysfunctionally dependent on quirks
> >particular to my current system. I read
>
> Others have answered your specific question, but I thought you'd
> also like to have this url,
>
> http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/
>
> Web access to the POSIX Standard.

Thanks, all. I actually visited that website
before, long ago. It just seems like there are
many names for standards (for unix and libc's)
out there, so it was helpful to even know that
looking at the posix standard would good enough
to cover many unixes.

As for cygwin, it is a posix emulation layer, so
it does provide a gettimeofday function. It just
isn't in its info database, at least no more than
as an item in a list. Admittedly, there's much
more I can do to become familiar with how to get
the info database more complete, but I have to
pace myself on time spent doing that (else out
be out of the game in the thesis research I'm
suppose to be doing).

Thank you all again.

Fred 

-- 
Fred Ma
Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada, K1S 5B6

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