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Re: Return value of 'times' on MS-Windows is constant and overflows
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: Return value of 'times' on MS-Windows is constant and overflows |
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Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:42:22 +0100 |
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On 06/08/2014 04:23 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The gnulib implementation of 'times' for MS-Windows uses the process
> creation time returned by the GetProcessTimes API to construct the
> value that the function should return.
>
> This has 2 problems:
>
> . The value is constant: every call to 'times' within the same
> process returns the same value. Callers generally expect the
> value to change, since Posix says the value is the elapsed time
> since some arbitrary point in time, and that point doesn't change
> for function calls in the same process. For example, Guile's test
> suite includes a test that calls 'times', sleeps for a few
> seconds, then calls 'times' again, and expects the return value to
> change by approximately the number of seconds it slept.
This seems correct. I.E. times() should count up.
I'll merge this but with s/change by/change according to/ in the line above.
thanks!
Pádraig.