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Re: Return value of 'times' on MS-Windows is constant and overflows
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: Return value of 'times' on MS-Windows is constant and overflows |
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Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:54:41 +0100 |
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On 06/10/2014 03:43 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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.
Pushed the attached, thanks.
Pádraig.
gnulib-times-windows.patch
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