From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-19T09:31:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15384] Re: Bug in time.c (was Time.times problems)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:15383] Re: Bug in time.c (was Time.times problems)"
    on 01/05/19, Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

|"Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@hurstlinks.com> writes:
|
|> His analysis makes sense to me...  Of course, this still leaves the
|> question of how to know whether it failed or succeeded.
|
|Like the time(2) call, it can't fail.
|
|I think you've found a bug.

Hmm, Linux man page times(2) says:

       On error, (clock_t) -1 is returned, and errno is set
       appropriately.

whereas for time(2)

       On  success,  the value of time in seconds since the Epoch
       is returned.  On  error,  ((time_t)-1)  is  returned,  and
       errno is set appropriately.

but

       POSIX does not specify any error conditions.

I'm not sure what I should do yet.

							matz.