iv_now, iv_validate_now, iv_invalidate_now - ivykis time handling
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Description
iv_now is a global variable that represents a monotonic timer.
The contents of iv_now might be stale. Calling the function iv_validate_now ensures that the current
contents of iv_now are up-to-date.
The function iv_invalidate_now is called to invalidate the currently cached time. This function should
be called after any operation that takes a significant amount of wall clock time.
Name
iv_now, iv_validate_now, iv_invalidate_now - ivykis time handling
See Also
ivykis(3), iv_examples(3) ivykis 2003-03-29 iv_time(3)
Synopsis
#include<iv.h>externstructtimespeciv_now;voidiv_validate_now(void);voidiv_invalidate_now(void);
