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From: Nigel Roles ngr@sym...
Subject: XaoS - fast realtime fractal zoomer
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:17:49 +0100

> I did port of my XaoS to plan9. I have just small problem with timmings. 
> Is there any functions that returns time in miliseconds or such like 
> gettimeofday?

Damn - try again.

int
msec(void)
{
	static int fd = -1;
	char buf[20]; /* ish */
	if (fd < 0)
		fd = open("/dev/msec", OREAD);
	else
		seek(fd, 0, 0);
	read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
	return atoi(buf);
}

Nigel Roles