On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:55:53PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
In 2.4.x, you'll get it on the stack as one of the ELF auxilliary
entries (AT_CLKTCK).
Strictly speaking that's the "frequency at which 'times()' counts", ie
the kernel CLOCKS_PER_SEC, not HZ. But from a user perspective the two
should hopefully always be the same (if any of the /proc fields etc
should really use CLOCKS_PER_SEC, not HZ).
I would hope nobody actually uses the above. Since I run kernels
with HZ==2048 and started having to hack various userland tools to
make them happy I too was after this information.
However, it was pointed out that eliminated HZ completely might be a
better idea, and then just exporting all values to userspace as
nanoseconds or similiar... a radically different approach to what we
have now but something that struck me as a really good idea.
Fodder for 2.5.x perhaps?
--cw
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