Re: time-1.7 counts rusage wrong on Linux

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

I don' think it's a behavior change; it's an outright bug: the behavior of
the program is inconsistent with its documentation. :) But, at the same
time, it's not terribly important.


On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > 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?
>
> That is correct.  I adopted the Debian time package and added that
> patch and released Debian's 1.7-24 version.
>
>   http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/time.html
>
> That flowed into Ubuntu and shows as being available in Quetzal 12.10
> and later.
>
>   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/time
>
> Unfortunately it didn't make it into Precise 12.04 LTS.  Which is
> especially unfortunate since it is their current LTS release.  It is a
> behavior change and so I don't think would be a candidate for a
> propose-update in a point release.
>
> Bob
>