get_timespec64(9)

💖 get_timespec64(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's a little function from the kernel's time corner and it's lowkey iconic 🕰️💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

get_timespec64 — literally pulls the user's time value into kernel space 🫶 no cap, that's the whole job.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int get_timespec64 (struct timespec64 *ts , const struct __kernel_timespec __user *uts );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ts — the destination struct timespec64, aka where the time lands 💖
• uts — the user's time value, handed over as a struct __kernel_timespec 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

It handles compat or 32-bit modes. that's the whole description, she's short and mysterious and honestly? main character energy 💀✨

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

• 0 on success 🎉
• a negative errno on error 😭 (yes, negative, don't come for her)

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./kernel/time/time.c — plus the whole friend group, and we're listing every single one because nobody gets left behind 🫶:

• jiffies_to_msecs(9)
• jiffies_to_usecs(9)
• mktime64(9)
• set_normalized_timespec64(9)
• ns_to_timespec64(9)
• __msecs_to_jiffies(9)
• __usecs_to_jiffies(9)
• timespec64_to_jiffies(9)
• jiffies_to_timespec64(9)
• jiffies_to_clock_t(9)
• clock_t_to_jiffies(9)
• jiffies_64_to_clock_t(9)
• nsec_to_clock_t(9)
• jiffies64_to_nsecs(9)
• jiffies64_to_msecs(9)
• nsecs_to_jiffies64(9)
• nsecs_to_jiffies(9)
• timespec64_add_safe(9)
• put_timespec64(9)
• get_old_timespec32(9)
• put_old_timespec32(9)
• get_itimerspec64(9)
• put_itimerspec64(9)
• get_old_itimerspec32(9)
• put_old_itimerspec32(9)

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ngl this page is tiny but every detail ate, so read it twice bestie 🍓

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mwah, that's the whole page! 💜 this gem lives in ./kernel/time and the date on it is October 2026 — go off, queen 👑✨ see u in the group chat 🫶🎀