timespec - time in seconds and nanoseconds
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Description
Describes times in seconds and nanoseconds.
tv_nsec is of an implementation-defined signed type capable of holding the specified range. Under glibc,
this is usually long, and longlong on X32. It can be safely down-cast to any concrete 32-bit integer
type for processing.
History
POSIX.1-2001.
Library
Standard C library (libc)
Name
timespec - time in seconds and nanoseconds
Notes
The following headers also provide this type: <aio.h>, <mqueue.h>, <sched.h>, <signal.h>, <sys/select.h>,
and <sys/stat.h>.
See Also
clock_gettime(2), clock_nanosleep(2), nanosleep(2), timerfd_gettime(2), timer_gettime(2), time_t(3type), timeval(3type) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 timespec(3type)
Standards
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<time.h>structtimespec{time_ttv_sec; /* Seconds */
/* ... */ tv_nsec; /* Nanoseconds [0, 999'999'999] */
};Versions
Prior to C23, tv_nsec was long.
