qtimer_secs(3)

💖 qtimer_secs(3) — the libqthread era 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the libqthread manual, section 3, and it's literally called qtimer_secs. That's the whole name, that's the whole vibe. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

qtimer_secs — calculate the elapsed time in seconds 🌸

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <qthread/qtimer.h>

double
qtimer_secs (qtimer_t timer);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So like, this function calculates the elapsed time of the timer and hands it back to you as a double-precision value, measured in seconds. That's it, that's the whole job, and it eats. 👑

One tiny little thing though — and bestie I need you to hear me on this one — the return value is undefined if the timer hasn't yet been both started and stopped, in that order. Started. Then stopped. In that order. Not stopped-then-started, not started-and-still-going, not vibing in the middle. Both. In order. Otherwise it's giving ✨chaos✨ and you get a number that means literally nothing. 🫠

no cap, "undefined" here is the real deal — not a cute lil default value, not zero, just undefined. Do the start then the stop first, okay? 🙈

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• qtimer_create(3)
• qtimer_destroy(3)
• qtimer_start(3)
• qtimer_stop(3)

go read those, iykyk 🧚

mwah, that's a wrap on this page from the libqthread girlies, dated JUNE 2010 — yeah she's vintage but she still slays 💜