TIMERADD(3)

NAME
timeradd, timersub, timercmp, timerclear, timerisset - timeval operations

LIBRARY
Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/time.h>

void timeradd(struct timeval *a, struct timeval *b,
              struct timeval *res);
void timersub(struct timeval *a, struct timeval *b,
              struct timeval *res);

void timerclear(struct timeval *tvp);
int timerisset(struct timeval *tvp);

int timercmp(struct timeval *a, struct timeval *b, CMP);

    Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

All functions shown above:
    Since glibc 2.19:
        _DEFAULT_SOURCE
    Glibc 2.19 and earlier:
        _BSD_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION
The macros are provided to operate on timeval structures, defined in <sys/time.h> as:

    struct timeval {
        time_t      tv_sec;     /* seconds */
        suseconds_t tv_usec;    /* microseconds */
    };

timeradd() adds the time values in a and b, and places the sum in the timeval pointed to by res. The result is normalized such that res->tv_usec has a value in the range 0 to 999,999.

timersub() subtracts the time value in b from the time value in a, and places the result in the timeval pointed to by res. The result is normalized such that res->tv_usec has a value in the range 0 to 999,999.

timerclear() zeros out the timeval structure pointed to by tvp, so that it represents the Epoch: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC).

timerisset() returns true (nonzero) if either field of the timeval structure pointed to by tvp contains a nonzero value.

timercmp() compares the timer values in a and b using the comparison operator CMP, and returns true (nonzero) or false (0) depending on the result of the comparison. Some systems (but not Linux/glibc), have a broken timercmp() implementation, in which CMP of >=, <=, and == do not work; portable applications can instead use

    !timercmp(..., <)
    !timercmp(..., >)
    !timercmp(..., !=)

RETURN VALUE
timerisset() and timercmp() return true (nonzero) or false (0).

ERRORS
No errors are defined.

STANDARDS
Not in POSIX.1. Present on most BSD derivatives.

SEE ALSO
gettimeofday(2), time(7)