documentation problem for times(3) man page
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Mon Dec 1 07:17:25 PST 2008
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:51:46 +0100, "Viktor Štujber" <theultramage at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/172448.html.
> The subject was a documentation issue where a man page mismatched the
> actual system behavior.
You are right, there *is* a mismatch. The manpage seems to imply that
times() returns the number of CLK_TCK's since the UNIX Epoch, but it
returns the number of CLK_TCK's since the system _booted_ instead.
I'll fix the manpage. Thanks for the reminder email :)
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