Linux System Programming 学习笔记(十一) 时间

1. 内核提供三种不同的方式来记录时间

Wall time (or real time)：actual time and date in the real world

Process time：the time that a process spends executing on a processor 包括用户时间user time 和 系统时间system time

Monotonic time：use the system's uptime (time since boot) for this purpose，guarantee that the time source is strictly linearly increasing

 

Unix表示绝对时间：the number of elapsed seconds since the epoch, which is defined as 00:00:00 UTC on the morning of 1 January 1970

 

On Linux, the frequency of the system timer is called HZ，The value of HZ is architecture-specific 

POSIX functions that return time in terms of clock ticks use CLOCKS_PER_SEC to represent the fixed frequency

 

2. 时间表示的数据结构

 

原始表示：

typedef long time_t;

That won't last long before overflowing!

 

微秒级精度表示：

#include <sys/time.h>
struct timeval {
        time_t       tv_sec;     /* seconds */
        suseconds_t  tv_usec;    /* microseconds */
};

纳秒级精度表示：
#include <time.h>
struct timespec {
        time_t  tv_sec;       /* seconds */
        long    tv_nsec;      /* nanoseconds */
};

 

3. 获取当前时间

#include <time.h>
time_t time (time_t *t);

time() returns the current time represented as the number of seconds elapsed since the epoch

 

#include <sys/time.h>
int gettimeofday (struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz);

gettimeofday() places the current time in the timeval structure pointed at by tv and returns 0

参数tz总是为NULL

 

struct timeval tv;
int ret;
ret = gettimeofday (&tv, NULL);
if (ret)
        perror ("gettimeofday");
else
        printf ("seconds=%ld useconds=%ld\n", (long) tv.sec, (long) tv.tv_usec);

 

#include <sys/times.h>
struct tms {
        clock_t tms_utime;   /* user time consumed */
        clock_t tms_stime;   /* system time consumed */
        clock_t tms_cutime;  /* user time consumed by children */
        clock_t tms_cstime;  /* system time consumed by children */
};
clock_t times (struct tms *buf);

User time is the time spent executing code in user space.

System time is the time spent executing code in kernel space.

 

 

4. 设置当前时间

#include <time.h>
int stime (time_t *t);

#include <sys/time.h>
int settimeofday (const struct timeval *tv, const struct timezone *tz);

参数tz总是为NULL

struct timeval tv = { 31415926, 27182818 };
int ret;
ret = settimeofday (&tv, NULL);
if (ret)
        perror ("settimeofday");

 

5. sleep休眠

/*  puts the invoking process to sleep for the number of seconds  */
#include <unistd.h>
unsigned int sleep (unsigned int seconds);

 

/*  usleep() puts the invoking process to sleep for usec microseconds */
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500
#include <unistd.h>
int usleep (unsigned int usec);

#include <sys/select.h>
int select (int n, fd_set *readfds, fd_set *writefds, fd_set *exceptfds, struct timeval *timeout);

select函数将参数n设为0，三个检测事件集合全设为NULL，这时select就等同于一个精确时间的休眠函数，而且这种用法最具有可移植性

struct timeval tv = { .tv_sec = 0, .tv_usec = 757 };
select (0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &tv);

 

6. 定时器

Timers provide a mechanism for notifying a process when a given amount of time elapses

 

简单定时器：

#include <unistd.h>
unsigned int alarm (unsigned int seconds);

schedules the delivery of a SIGALRM signal to the invoking process after seconds of real time have elapsed

void alarm_handler (int signum)
{
        printf ("Five seconds passed!\n");
}
void func (void)
{
        signal (SIGALRM, alarm_handler);
        alarm (5);
        pause ();
}

间隔定时器：

#include <sys/time.h>
int getitimer (int which, struct itimerval *value);
int setitimer (int which, const struct itimerval *value, struct itimerval *ovalue);

struct itimerval {
        struct timeval it_interval;  /* next value */
        struct timeval it_value;     /* current value */
};

struct timeval {
        long tv_sec;   /* seconds */
        long tv_usec;  /* microseconds */
};

void alarm_handler (int signo)
{
        printf ("Timer hit!\n");
}
void foo (void)
{
        struct itimerval delay;
        int ret;
        signal (SIGALRM, alarm_handler);
        delay.it_value.tv_sec = 5;
        delay.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
        delay.it_interval.tv_sec = 1;
        delay.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
        ret = setitimer (ITIMER_REAL, &delay, NULL);
        if (ret) {
                perror ("setitimer");
                return;
        }
        pause ();
}