6622 - new syscalls: time and ntime

As a side-effect I find that my Linode can print ~100k chars/s. At 50 rows
and 200 columns per screen, it's 10 frames/s.

1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/401time.mu b/401time.mu
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+type timespec {
+  tv_sec: int
+  tv_nsec: int
+}
+
+# TODO: y2038
+fn time -> secs/eax: int {
+  var t: timespec
+  var clock/ebx: int <- copy 0  # CLOCK_MONOTONIC
+  var t-addr/ecx: (addr timespec) <- address t
+  syscall_clock_gettime
+  var t-secs-addr/ecx: (addr int) <- get t-addr, tv_sec
+  secs <- copy *t-secs-addr
+}
+
+fn ntime -> nsecs/eax: int {
+  var t: timespec
+  var clock/ebx: int <- copy 0  # CLOCK_MONOTONIC
+  var t-addr/ecx: (addr timespec) <- address t
+  syscall_clock_gettime
+  var t-nsecs-addr/ecx: (addr int) <- get t-addr, tv_nsec
+  nsecs <- copy *t-nsecs-addr
+}
+
+# nsecs must be less than 999999999 or 0x3b9ac9ff nanoseconds
+fn sleep secs: int, nsecs: int {
+  var t: timespec
+  # initialize t
+  var tmp/eax: (addr int) <- get t, tv_sec
+  var tmp2/ecx: int <- copy secs
+  copy-to *tmp, tmp2
+  tmp <- get t, tv_nsec
+  tmp2 <- copy nsecs
+  copy-to *tmp, tmp2
+  # perform the syscall
+  var t-addr/ebx: (addr timespec) <- address t
+  var rem-addr/ecx: (addr timespec) <- copy 0
+  syscall_nanosleep
+}