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Re: Return value of 'times' on MS-Windows is constant and overflows


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Return value of 'times' on MS-Windows is constant and overflows
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 05:43:31 +0300

> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:42:22 +0100
> From: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> >   . The value is constant: every call to 'times' within the same
> >     process returns the same value.  Callers generally expect the
> >     value to change, since Posix says the value is the elapsed time
> >     since some arbitrary point in time, and that point doesn't change
> >     for function calls in the same process.  For example, Guile's test
> >     suite includes a test that calls 'times', sleeps for a few
> >     seconds, then calls 'times' again, and expects the return value to
> >     change by approximately the number of seconds it slept.
> 
> This seems correct. I.E. times() should count up.
> I'll merge this but with s/change by/change according to/ in the line above.

Thanks.




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