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| author | keramida <keramida@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-12-01 15:27:00 +0000 |
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| committer | keramida <keramida@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-12-01 15:27:00 +0000 |
| commit | cbc4e4d96d7b67978d6be592b8f8c3ee70cff337 (patch) | |
| tree | b52113e3eedc44a592b0b5be02730d0d2f8b151c /lib/libc | |
| parent | 3173b6480a67cf7d75b7c0ba0face752bf74d01d (diff) | |
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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
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/times.3 | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/times.3 b/lib/libc/gen/times.3 index 9775387..a77c69f 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/times.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/times.3 @@ -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 |
