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    gettimeofday的man说明:

 


GETTIMEOFDAY(2)            Linux Programmer's Manual           GETTIMEOFDAY(2)
NAME
       gettimeofday, settimeofday - get / set time
SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/time.h>
       int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz);
       int settimeofday(const struct timeval *tv, const struct timezone *tz);
   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
       settimeofday(): _BSD_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION
       The  functions  gettimeofday()  and  settimeofday() can get and set the
       time as well as a timezone.  The tv argument is a  struct  timeval  (as
       specified in <sys/time.h>):
           struct timeval {
               time_t      tv_sec;     /* seconds */
               suseconds_t tv_usec;    /* microseconds */
           };
       and  gives  the number of seconds and microseconds since the Epoch (see
       time(2)).  The tz argument is a struct timezone:
           struct timezone {
               int tz_minuteswest;     /* minutes west of Greenwich */
               int tz_dsttime;         /* type of DST correction */
           };
       If either tv or tz is NULL, the corresponding structure is not  set  or
       returned.
       The  use  of the timezone structure is obsolete; the tz argument should
       normally be specified as NULL.  The tz_dsttime  field  has  never  been
       used  under Linux; it has not been and will not be supported by libc or
       glibc.  Each and every occurrence of this field in  the  kernel  source
(other  than  the declaration) is a bug.  Thus, the following is purely
       of historic interest.
       The field tz_dsttime contains a symbolic  constant  (values  are  given
       below) that indicates in which part of the year Daylight Saving Time is
       in force.  (Note: its value is constant throughout the  year:  it  does
       not  indicate that DST is in force, it just selects an algorithm.)  The
       daylight saving time algorithms defined are as follows :
           DST_NONE     /* not on dst */
           DST_USA      /* USA style dst */
           DST_AUST     /* Australian style dst */
           DST_WET      /* Western European dst */
           DST_MET      /* Middle European dst */
           DST_EET      /* Eastern European dst */
           DST_CAN      /* Canada */
           DST_GB       /* Great Britain and Eire */
           DST_RUM      /* Rumania */
           DST_TUR      /* Turkey */
           DST_AUSTALT  /* Australian style with shift in 1986 */
       Of course it turned out that the period in which Daylight  Saving  Time
       is  in  force  cannot  be given by a simple algorithm, one per country;
       indeed, this period is determined by unpredictable political decisions.
       So  this  method  of  representing timezones has been abandoned.  Under
       Linux, in a call to settimeofday() the tz_dsttime field should be zero.
       Under Linux there are some peculiar "warp clock"  semantics  associated
       with  the  settimeofday()  system call if on the very first call (after
       booting) that has a non-NULL tz argument, the tv argument is  NULL  and
       the  tz_minuteswest  field  is  non-zero.  In such a case it is assumed
       that the CMOS clock is on local time, and that it has to be incremented
       by  this  amount  to get UTC system time.  No doubt it is a bad idea to
       use this feature.
       Macros for operating on timeval  structures  are  described  in  timer‐
       add(3).
RETURN VALUE
       gettimeofday() and settimeofday() return 0 for success, or -1 for fail‐
 ure (in which case errno is set appropriately).
ERRORS
       EFAULT One of tv or tz pointed outside the accessible address space.
       EINVAL Timezone (or something else) is invalid.
       EPERM  The calling process has insufficient privilege to call  settime‐
              ofday(); under Linux the CAP_SYS_TIME capability is required.
CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, 4.3BSD.  POSIX.1-2001 describes gettimeofday() but not settimeof‐
       day().  POSIX.1-2008 marks gettimeofday() as obsolete, recomending  the
       use of clock_gettime(2) instead.
NOTES
       Traditionally, the fields of struct timeval were of type long.
SEE ALSO
       date(1),  adjtimex(2),  time(2),  ctime(3),  ftime(3), capabilities(7),
       time(7)
COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.23 of the Linux  man-pages  project.   A
       description  of  the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Linux                             2009-03-25                   GETTIMEOFDAY(2)

    以上都是凑字数的废话,中文说明如下:
   使用C语言进行计时,在用户空间中可以使用C语言函数gettimeofday 得到时间,它的调用格式是:

 

 

    可以看出,使用这种方式计时,精度可达微秒,也就是10-6秒。进行计时的时候,我们需要前后调用两次gettimeofday,然后计算中间的差值:以下是写的一个小函数,客户端发送一个8K的数据给服务器,利用gettimeofday函数判断一次发送所需要的时间,也就是send()函数的一次调用时间。下面分别给出客户端和服务端的代码,客户端是可以链接TCP和UDP的客户端。中文注释有问题,我懒,不弄了,函数大家都能看得懂的。socket编程基础代码。

 

 

 

 

send文件可以打印出来每次时间,微妙级的精确计时工具,但是还有一个问题就是最后一次时间的输出实际上是第二个gettimeofday的调用后时间,这样实际上多加了一次gettimeofday的时间,应该是不够精准的,后续继续思考吧。希望看到的高人们给与指点……   ^_^!!

 

 

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