Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> · Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:27:58 -0500

Wayne Dahl wrote:
I'm reading in the documentation that tickGet() etc are to be replaced by
routines in osiClock.  I can't find that anywhere.  What would be the
appropriate replacements for tickGet on solaris?

Thanks
Wayne

There is no exact replacement for tickGet.
EPICS base 3.14.x provides two time related libCom modules: epicsTime
and epicsTimer.
epicsTime - manipulates epics time stamps. It provides MANY
methods/functions to manipulate the time stamps. It can get the current
time, compute time differences, convert to other representations of
time, etc.
epicsTimer - A timer facility that replaces taskDelay
Also epicsThread provides epicsThreadSleepQuantum which gives the time
in seconds between clock interrupts. This is a replacement for
sysClkRateGet.
I will guess that what you want is epicsTimeGetCurrent to replace
tickGet and then use epicsTimeDiffInSeconds to compute the difference in
time between two calls to tickGet.
Consult the Application Developer's Guide for details.
Marty Kraimer

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System