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NTP_GETTIME 2 "May 21, 2009"
NAME
ntp_gettime - get local clock values
SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/timex.h>

int ntp_gettime(struct ntptimeval *tptr);
DESCRIPTION

The ntp_gettime() function reads the local clock value and dispersion, returning the information in tptr.

The ntptimeval structure contains the following members:

struct ntptimeval {
 struct timeval time; /* current time (ro) */
 int32_t maxerror; /* maximum error (us) (ro) */
 int32_t esterror; /* estimated error (us) (ro) */
};
RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, ntp_gettime() returns the current clock state (see <sys/timex.h>). Otherwise, it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the error.

ERRORS

The ntp_gettime() function will fail if: EFAULT

The tptr argument points to an invalid address.

The ntp_gettime() function will fail for 32-bit interfaces if: EOVERFLOW

The size of the time.tv_sec member of the ntptimeval structure pointed to by tptr is too small to contain the correct number of seconds.

SEE ALSO

ntp_adjtime(2)

See the ntpd man page, delivered in the SUNWntpu package (not a SunOS man page).