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  TIME STAMP for a LNP distributed robot
 
Hi, I'd like to make a basic implementation of a time stamp on a distributed schame, using Lamport's algorithm. It states basically that when a node receives a message, it get the time stamp that's contained on it, and compares with it's own, if the (...) (22 years ago, 7-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 
  Re: TIME STAMP for a LNP distributed robot
 
Hi, The sys_time variable is the basic timekeeper for BrickOS. It is a 32-bit integer that is incremented every millisecond by the kernel. In older versions of the kernel you could access the variable directly, however, in 0.2.6.10 and later you (...) (22 years ago, 7-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 
  Re: TIME STAMP for a LNP distributed robot
 
BTW, make sure you include: #include <time.h> Otherwise, get_system_up_time() will only return 16 bits! Mark (22 years ago, 7-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 
  Re: TIME STAMP for a LNP distributed robot
 
Thanks Mark for your idea, it's better to have a different global time than the one of the kernel. Best Regards, CarlosLuis Rendon M. "Mark Riley" <markril@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:HEIyDt.16s5@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 7-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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