* Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
* provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given
* to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University
* may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
* software without specific prior written permission. This software
* is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty.
static char sccsid
[] = "@(#)hertz.c 5.2 (Berkeley) %G%";
* discover the tick frequency of the machine
* if something goes wrong, we return 0, an impossible hertz.
tim
.it_interval
.tv_sec
= 0;
tim
.it_interval
.tv_usec
= 1;
tim
.it_value
.tv_usec
= 0;
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL
, &tim
, 0);
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL
, 0, &tim
);
if (tim
.it_interval
.tv_usec
< 2)
return (1000000 / tim
.it_interval
.tv_usec
);