在debian linux的man页中对gettimeofday函数的说明中,有这样一个说明:

DESCRIPTION
    The functions gettimeofday and settimeofday can get and set the time as
    well as a timezone. The tv argument is a timeval struct, as specified
    in :
    struct timeval {
          time_t       tv_sec;     /* seconds */
          suseconds_t   tv_usec; /* microseconds */
    };

其中对tv_usec的说明为时间的毫秒部分。 而在实际中,该函数以及Linux内核返回的timeval
类型的时间值,tv_usec代表的是微秒精度(10的-6次方秒)。
测试代码如下:

#include
#include
#include
    int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz);
int main(int argc,char * argv[]){
    struct timeval tv;
    while(1){
          gettimeofday(&tv,NULL);
          printf("time %u:%u\n",tv.tv_sec,tv.tv_usec);
          sleep(2);
    }
    return 0;
}

返回结果为:

evil@dcenter:~/tmp$ ./a.out
time 1142077839:903605
time 1142077841:910129
time 1142077843:920155
time 1142077845:930180
time 1142077847:940205
time 1142077849:950231
time 1142077851:960256
time 1142077853:970280
time 1142077855:980307
time 1142077857:990331