Re: time-1.7 counts rusage wrong on Linux

[Bob Proulx]

Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> 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.

If you want to try to get this into a point release for Ubuntu 12.04
LTS that would be great!  I will cheer you on from the sidelines! :-)
In any case, Debian Wheezy 7.0 has this in the queue for the next
stable Debian release.

As historical point I am pretty sure that in the early, early Linux
kernel days that the Linux kernel's system call was where the bug
originated.  I think the Linux kernel originally had this incorrect as
compared to other kernels such as BSD.  And the time program was
simply downstream of it and reacting by making it work.  Then when the
Linux kernel was fixed the ripple never made it downsteam into time.
I will research the Linux kernel sources way-back-then someday.  But
it makes the explanation of how this came about make sense.  Hopefully
it is even true.

Bob