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Date:      Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:17:13 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Viktor_=C5=A0tujber?= <theultramage@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: documentation problem for times(3) man page
Message-ID:  <87abbgrkli.fsf@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <890fa77e0812010051p2ab5c7cbv6e960124d699967b@mail.gmail.com> ("Viktor =?utf-8?Q?=C5=A0tujber=22's?= message of "Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:51:46 %2B0100")
References:  <890fa77e0812010051p2ab5c7cbv6e960124d699967b@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:51:46 +0100, "Viktor =C5=A0tujber" <theultramage@gmai=
l.com> 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 :)




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