From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-05-19T05:50:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15381] Re: Time.times problems in libc5; getrusage  request

"Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@hurstlinks.com> writes:

> (Notice it returns -1 but still worked. Yet, line 966 in Ruby's time.c has:
>       if (times(&buf) == -1) rb_sys_fail(0);
> Does this mean the return code for times() is not a success indicator?)

According to times(2), the return value, which should be of type
clock_t, is the time the system's been up in clock ticks.


Dave