alarm_clock_get_timespec(9)

💅 alarm_clock_get_timespec(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie ✨

okay so welcome to the kernel API manual, we're doing alarm_clock_get_timespec(9) today and honestly? it's giving "small function, big responsibility" 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

alarm_clock_get_timespec — literally the posix clock_get_timespec interface, no cap 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int alarm_clock_get_timespec (clockid_t which_clock , struct timespec64
*tp );

that's the whole thing. two args, one int back. iconic behavior 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• which_clock — the clockid_t clockid, like, which clock are we talking about here 🕰️
• tp — the struct timespec64 that we're gonna fill. it's the timespec. it gets filled. that's the job 🫶

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so here's the tea: this one hands you the underlying alarm base time in a task's time namespace ✨ that's it, that's the whole vibe. no extra lore, no secret side quests — it just gives you the base time and you go off and live your life 🌈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole friend group, in order, exactly as the kernel file ./kernel/time/alarmtimer.c lists them 🍓

• struct alarm_base(9)
• alarmtimer_get_rtcdev(9)
• alarmtimer_enqueue(9)
• alarmtimer_dequeue(9)
• alarmtimer_fired(9)
• alarmtimer_suspend(9)
• alarm_init(9)
• alarm_start_timer(9)
• alarm_try_to_cancel(9)
• alarm_cancel(9)
• clock2alarm(9)
• alarm_handle_timer(9)
• alarm_timer_rearm(9)
• alarm_timer_forward(9)
• alarm_timer_remaining(9)
• alarm_timer_try_to_cancel(9)
• alarm_timer_wait_running(9)
• alarm_timer_arm(9)
• alarm_clock_getres(9)
• alarm_clock_get_ktime(9)
• alarm_timer_create(9)
• alarmtimer_nsleep_wakeup(9)
• alarmtimer_do_nsleep(9)
• alarm_timer_nsleep_restart(9)
• alarm_timer_nsleep(9)
• alarmtimer_init(9)

like, talk about a full roster 😭 go read them all, fr fr, iykyk 💜

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