Unix Programming - CLOCK_MONOTONIC datagram timestamps by the kernel

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CLOCK_MONOTONIC datagram timestamps by the kernel

Spoon

2007-02-24, 7:03 pm

Hello,

In Linux, it is possible to ask the kernel to timestamp incoming
datagrams when they are received, then to retrieve this timestamp with
an ioctl command.

SIOCGSTAMP
Return a struct timeval with the receive timestamp of the last
packet passed to the user. This is useful for accurate round trip time
measurements. See setitimer(2) for a description of struct timeval.

As far as I understand, this timestamp is given by the CLOCK_REALTIME
clock. I would like to get the timestamp given by a different clock: the
CLOCK_MONOTONIC clock.

In other words, I would like the kernel to do the equivalent of

struct timespec spec;
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &spec)

for each datagram the system receives, as soon as it is received.

How can I achieve that?

Is there a different ioctl perhaps? (I don't think so.)

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