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Subject: Re: need confirmation of documentation problem for times(3)
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"Viktor =8Atujber" <viktor.stujber@gmail.com> writes:

> I have been forwarded to this list from a docs bugreport
> * http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D122359
> and I am looking for confirmation of this issue.
>
> Transscript:
>> The freebsd manpages for 'clock_t times(struct tms *tp)' say the followi=
ng:
>>
>> The times() function returns the value of time in CLK_TCK's of a second =
since
>> 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds, January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal Ti=
me.
>> But after letting a sample C program print the returned value, it matches
>> the system's uptime (in clock ticks).
>>
>> I would like to ask the bsd devs to clarify whether this is
>> a documentation problem, or an implementation problem.

According to /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/times.c (and my understanding of
the way it uses clock_gettime()), it looks like the documentation
matches what the code is intended to do.  If there is a problem, it is
probably in clock_gettime().=20=20

Note that times(2) is a deprecated function, and *either* behaviour is
acceptable according to the standards which applied before it was
deprecated.