sunos man page for ntp_gettime

ntp_gettime(2)							   System Calls 						    ntp_gettime(2)

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  num-
		       ber of seconds.

SEE ALSO
       xntpd(1M), ntp_adjtime(2)

SunOS 5.10							    9 Nov 1999							    ntp_gettime(2)