Re: jiffie

2004-12-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 05 December 2004 6:43 am, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Can anybody tell me what a jiffie is? I've been seeing this term all > through the kernel code. It's in the Jargon File... http://ursine.dyndns.org/Jargon:jiffy -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.dyndns.org/ pgpaQH73o0

Re: jiffie

2004-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 15:43 +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Hi group, > > Can anybody tell me what a jiffie is? I've been seeing this term all > through the kernel code. A small unit of time. Maybe it's not a French expression. Also, Google is your friend. Searching for "linux jiffie" returns t

Re: jiffie

2004-12-05 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 03:43:05PM +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Can anybody tell me what a jiffie is? I've been seeing this term all through > the kernel code. I found this on the net: > Under Linux the jiffies variable is the number of clock ticks since the > machine boot. It's rate is define