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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: 19 Jul 1996 23:19:30 GMT
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chuck@ccrc.wustl.edu (Chuck Cranor) wrote:

> program	description		Sparc2		P5-133MHz
> lat_syscall	write 1 to /dev/null	61 		6	
> lat_gettime	gettimeofday(&tv,0)	27		5
> lat_kill	kill(1,0)		23		2
> lat_umask	umask(0)		19		2
> lat_getppid	getppid()		17		1

So i think getppid() (not only suggested by me, also by Alan Cox,
IIRC) is the clear winner.  However, i hope you didn't forget to
scale the umask() test in case you've been using my suggested

	umask(umask(0));

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)