Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:31:07 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Viktor =?utf-8?Q?=C5=A0tujber?= <theultramage@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: documentation problem for times(3) man page Message-ID: <874p1nsyis.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <87abbgrkli.fsf@kobe.laptop> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:17:13 %2B0200") References: <890fa77e0812010051p2ab5c7cbv6e960124d699967b@mail.gmail.com> <87abbgrkli.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:17:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:51:46 +0100, "Viktor =C5=A0tujber" <theultramage@gm= ail.com> wrote: >> Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/172448.h= tml. > >> 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. It should be fixed on 8.0-CURRENT now, after the following change: : 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 It may be too late to push this into 7.1-RELEASE, but I will try to merge the change to the stable branches in a few days. Cheers, Giorgos
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