170
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