From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 15:17:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7334E1065670 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:17:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA73C8FC18 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:17:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl144-35.kln.forthnet.gr [195.74.243.35]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id mB1FHFZT005699 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:17:21 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mB1FHF1k078723; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:17:15 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id mB1FHEHI078722; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 17:17:14 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: =?utf-8?Q?Viktor_=C5=A0tujber?= References: <890fa77e0812010051p2ab5c7cbv6e960124d699967b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:17:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: <890fa77e0812010051p2ab5c7cbv6e960124d699967b@mail.gmail.com> ("Viktor =?utf-8?Q?=C5=A0tujber=22's?= message of "Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:51:46 +0100") Message-ID: <87abbgrkli.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MailScanner-ID: mB1FHFZT005699 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.824, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.57, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: documentation problem for times(3) man page X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:17:25 -0000 On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:51:46 +0100, "Viktor =C5=A0tujber" wrote: > Hi. Half a year ago I started the following thread: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/172448.ht= ml. > 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 :)