From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-05-19T12:02:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15387] Re: Bug in time.c (was Time.times problems)

matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> |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.

That's strange. On both my boxes, the man page doesn't mention an
error for either function. However, if the buffer address is bad, they
do indeed return EFAULT. So I retract the bug in Ruby, and claim a bug
in my man pages :)


Dave