Program to output time down to milliseconds

[aixmurderer]

Hi guys, I am a total non-entity when it comes to C programming, but I am stuck between a rock and a hard place and my gut feeling is a C program could do this for me. I need a C program which will output a time string down to milliseconds on a unix system, preferably in hhmmsscc format.

Unix lets me down as the 'date' function only goes down to seconds, I need finer control to name multiple files which are generated in the same second. I wish to call such a program whenever a script runs to generate a more accurate datestamp for renaming the file.

Any pointers to such a program would be wonderful, I have now surfed the net for days and never got close to anything which would generate this for me.
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[jamisar]

have a lock in solaris man pages:
drv_hztousec (9f) and drv_usectohz (9f)

you also can help you, a tricky way

char fname[256];
long now;
int loop = 1;

while(loop){
time(&now);
sprintf(fname,"ypath.%ld.%06%d",now,loop++);
/* create here the file using creat|access|open|fopen */
if(break-condition) loop = 0;
}

 

[jamisar]

sure, read:
sprintf(fname,"ypath.%ld.%06d",now,loop++);