qbutil.h(3)

qbutil.h3

These are some convience functions used throughout libqb.

Usage

#include <qb/qbutil.h>

Overview

Locking

Time functions

Basic Stopwatch

uint64_t elapsed1;
uint64_t elapsed2;
qb_util_stopwatch_t *sw = qb_util_stopwatch_create();
qb_util_stopwatch_start(sw);
usleep(sometime);
qb_util_stopwatch_stop(sw);
elapsed1 = qb_util_stopwatch_us_elapsed_get(sw);
usleep(somemoretime);
qb_util_stopwatch_stop(sw);
elapsed2 = qb_util_stopwatch_us_elapsed_get(sw);
qb_util_stopwatch_free(sw);

Stopwatch with splits

Setup a stopwatch with space for 3 splits.

uint64_t split;
qb_util_stopwatch_t *sw = qb_util_stopwatch_create();
qb_util_stopwatch_split_ctl(sw, 3, 0);
qb_util_stopwatch_start(sw);
usleep(sometime);
qb_util_stopwatch_split(sw);
usleep(somemoretime);
qb_util_stopwatch_split(sw);
usleep(somemoretime);
qb_util_stopwatch_split(sw);
idx = qb_util_stopwatch_split_last(sw);
do {
     split = qb_util_stopwatch_time_split_get(sw, idx, idx);
     qb_log(LOG_INFO, "split %d is %"PRIu64"", last, split);
     idx--;
} while (split > 0);
split = qb_util_stopwatch_time_split_get(sw, 2, 1);
qb_log(LOG_INFO, "time between second and third split is %"PRIu64"", split);
qb_util_stopwatch_free(sw);

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 7–8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

From libqb 2.0.10-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.