Re: linux missing support for _POSIX_THREAD_CPUTIME?

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, 27 May 2009, Chris Friesen wrote:

That's more a question for the glibc folks. CC'ed.

> Hi all,
> 
> POSIX defines optional support for clock ID values obtained by invoking
> pthread_getcpuclockid().  When passed to clock_gettime(), this allows
> the caller to request the CPU-time clock of an arbitrary thread within
> the same process as the caller.
> 
> It appears that linux doesn't support this functionality--is that
> correct?  Is there any plan to enable this?
> 
> Is there any current way to obtain the runtime of a particular thread
> without knowing its tid (since the thread_id to tid mapping is known
> only to glibc)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/