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8 Host Utilities

8.4

tim

Description

The tim utility starts the tim process that receives periodic tick notification from tick processes and handles
protocol timers for all other processes.

Syntax

tim_xxx [-v]

where xxx is operating system specific, lnx for Linux and sol for Solaris versions.

Command Line Options

The tim utility supports the following command line options:

-v
Show version information.

Example

The tim process is typically only started by forking a process using gctload by including the following line in
the system.txt file:

FORK_PROCESS ./tim_lnx