svn commit: r185519 - head/lib/libc/gen

[Giorgos Keramidas]

Author: keramida (doc committer)
Date: Mon Dec  1 15:27:00 2008
New Revision: 185519
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/185519

Log:
  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
  MFC after:	1 week

Modified:
  head/lib/libc/gen/times.3

Modified: head/lib/libc/gen/times.3
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libc/gen/times.3	Mon Dec  1 15:02:00 2008	(r185518)
+++ head/lib/libc/gen/times.3	Mon Dec  1 15:27:00 2008	(r185519)
@@ -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