[svlug] Milliseconds in a Kernel Jiffy

[norm@dad.org]

According to "man proc", there are 10 milliseconds in a kernel jiffy. I suppose
that's only applicable to kernel versions 2.6.*.

Can I count on that for future kernels? If not, is there some way I can dig it
out of /proc or somewhere else?

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