Author: keramida (doc committer) Date: Mon Dec 1 15:27:00 2008 New Revision: 185519 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/185519
Log: The times(3) function returns the number of CLK_TCKs since the startup time of FreeBSD, not since the UNIX Epoch. PR: docs/122359 Submitted by: Viktor Štujber MFC after: 1 week Modified: head/lib/libc/gen/times.3 Modified: head/lib/libc/gen/times.3 ============================================================================== --- head/lib/libc/gen/times.3 Mon Dec 1 15:02:00 2008 (r185518) +++ head/lib/libc/gen/times.3 Mon Dec 1 15:27:00 2008 (r185519) @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)times.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 4, 1993 +.Dd December 1, 2008 .Dt TIMES 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -52,9 +52,13 @@ The .Fn times function returns the value of time in .Dv CLK_TCK Ns 's -of a second since -0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds, January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal -Time. +of a second since the system startup time. +The current value of +.Dv CLK_TCK , +the frequency of the statistics clock in ticks per second, may be +obtained through the +.Xr sysconf 3 +interface. .Pp It also fills in the structure pointed to by .Fa tp @@ -131,6 +135,7 @@ and .Xr getrusage 2 , .Xr gettimeofday 2 , .Xr wait 2 , +.Xr sysconf 3 , .Xr clocks 7 .Sh STANDARDS The _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
