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How to get microseconds of system time from Redhat Linux 4.0?

Answer:

The systemcall "gettimeofday" can be used to get the time in microseconds. The call takes two arguments.
1- struct timeval
2- struct timezone ( for timezone information). you can have second argument null.
timeval structure has two fields:
tv_sec ( represents time in seconds)
tv_usec ( represents time in microseconds )

the code snapshot is :
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struct timeval t_time;
gettimeofday(&t_time,NULL);

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