On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:38:02 +0000 Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:40:58PM -0800, Chris Landauer wrote: > > > i tried to figure out where the actual code for time is, but i can't > > quite tell - it appears to be buried inside csh somewhere (it also > > appears that there are several different possibilities for the data > > type used, depending on some compile time parameters for the csh > > compilation) > > There's also a standalone time(1) command which does much the same as > the shell built-in 'time' but has completely different internals. > [...] > With any luck the internal representation will be different and so the > supported range of values may be larger. Yep, I just checked the source, and time(1) does use struct timeval's internally. Should be sufficient to time something running for several decades. -Chris _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
