On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:52:47AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> | Tim Van Holder wrote:
> | > 
> | > > For some reason, the generated tests/testsuite contains
> | > >     times >at-times
> | > > all over the place. What is "times"? I can't find it, and it isn't a
> | > > /bin/sh builtin..
> | > 
> | > I think it's a bash builtin which reports the elapsed time
> | > of all processes in the current shell.  I'm not sure if other
> | > shells have similar commands.
> 
> I've tested bash, ash, and zsh before using it.
> 
> | > Maybe autotest should test for this:
> | > 
> | > at_times=:
> | > times >/dev/null 2>&1 && times=at_times
> 
> Why not, indeed.  But what is the actual problem?  There are error
> messages escaping for the test suite?

Yes - I don't have "times" anywhere.. It does say ! /bin/sh at the top
of testsuite afterall, not some other shell. eg. of output from testsuite:

  1: tools.at:47       times: not found
FAILED near `tools.at:83'


Cheers,

Patrick

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