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Minuk Choi wrote:
> Hiya, I'm playing around with the source files... and I was
> wondering... is there a way to grab the current number of ticks or
> timer?

Yes. The variable 'current_tick' is incremented HZ times per second.

> I want to write something that implements a time based (in milliseconds)
> delay.

You should use sleep(HZ/fraction) for that. Busy waiting does not work since we don't use preemptive scheduling.

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Björn

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