> On the other side I wonder why are sys_clock_* in the kernel unless higher
> than microsecond resolution is implemented. It seems to me like they really
> don't do any job which could not be done in glibc, and do
> not give even any performance advantages over it.
No, this would be worthless. These are realtime extensions which are
deisgned to have high accuracy and fast response times. With a
userlevel implementation doing some multiplexing based on whatever
timer would not help at all.
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