Re: time-1.7 counts rusage wrong on Linux

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

That's splendid; we saw the bug in ubuntu precise, which is 1.7-23.1; I
presume the patch was added only in 1.7-24?


On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:

> David C Niemi wrote:
> > Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > > Please keep me in the reply list on replies; I'm not subscribed to
> > > bug-gnu-utils.
> > > ...
> > > time-1.7 converts rusage values from page size units to K,
> unconditionally,
> > > but this is wrong at least on Linux, where they are already reported
> in K.
> > > That results in time printing out values that are four times too big.
> > >
> > > The source contains the comment "Note: Some machines express getrusage
> > > statistics in terms of K, others in terms of pages." but has no actual
> code
> > > that attempts to tell or ever works for those "some machines".
> >
> > I think I have a patch for this lying around somewhere.  I will take
> > care of it in the next release.
>
> I maintain patches for time-1.7 for Debian.  These patches are
> available for viewing here:
>
>   http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/time/1.7-24
>
> Of which the two you are most interested in are these:
>
>
> http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/time/1.7-24/rusage-portability.patch
>
>
> http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/time/1.7-24/ru_maxrss.patch
>
> However the others are also important and useful.
>
> Bob
>