1.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Kelly Yancey 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man9/tvtohz.9,v 1.1.4.2 2001/12/17 11:30:19 ru Exp $ 26.\" $DragonFly: src/share/man/man9/tvtohz.9,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:37:01 dillon Exp $ 27.\" 28.Dd January 3, 2000 29.Dt TVTOHZ 9 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm tvtohz 33.Nd convert time interval to tick count 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.In sys/time.h 36.Ft int 37.Fn tvtohz "struct timeval *tv" 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39The 40.Fn tvtohz 41function accepts a single argument 42.Fa tv 43which specifies the time interval over which to calculate the number 44of system ticks that would elapse. 45.Sh RETURN VALUES 46Returns the integral number of system ticks expected to elapse in the given 47interval, including the current tick. 48.Sh SEE ALSO 49.Xr microtime 9 , 50.Xr microuptime 9 , 51.Xr timeout 9 52.Sh HISTORY 53The 54.Nm 55function first appeared in 56.Fx 3.0 57.Sh AUTHORS 58This manual page was written by 59.An Kelly Yancey Aq kbyanc@posi.net . 60