svn commit: r185705 - in releng/7.1/lib/libc: . gen string
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 6 05:50:03 PST 2008
Author: keramida (doc committer)
Date: Sat Dec 6 13:50:03 2008
New Revision: 185705
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/185705
Log:
MFC: r185519
The times(3) function returns the number of CLK_TCKs since the
startup time of FreeBSD, not since the UNIX Epoch.
PR: docs/122359
Submitted by: Viktor Štujber
Approved by: re (kib)
Modified:
releng/7.1/lib/libc/ (props changed)
releng/7.1/lib/libc/gen/times.3
releng/7.1/lib/libc/string/ffsll.c (props changed)
releng/7.1/lib/libc/string/flsll.c (props changed)
Modified: releng/7.1/lib/libc/gen/times.3
==============================================================================
--- releng/7.1/lib/libc/gen/times.3 Sat Dec 6 13:48:11 2008 (r185704)
+++ releng/7.1/lib/libc/gen/times.3 Sat Dec 6 13:50:03 2008 (r185705)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)times.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dd December 1, 2008
.Dt TIMES 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -52,9 +52,13 @@ The
.Fn times
function returns the value of time in
.Dv CLK_TCK Ns 's
-of a second since
-0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds, January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal
-Time.
+of a second since the system startup time.
+The current value of
+.Dv CLK_TCK ,
+the frequency of the statistics clock in ticks per second, may be
+obtained through the
+.Xr sysconf 3
+interface.
.Pp
It also fills in the structure pointed to by
.Fa tp
@@ -131,6 +135,7 @@ and
.Xr getrusage 2 ,
.Xr gettimeofday 2 ,
.Xr wait 2 ,
+.Xr sysconf 3 ,
.Xr clocks 7
.Sh STANDARDS
The
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