Change manpage of times(2) to recommend clock_gettime(2), not gettimeofday(2) >From times(2): "To measure changes in elapsed time, use gettimeofday(2) instead." >From gettimeofday(2): "POSIX.1-2008 marks gettimeofday() as obsolete, recomending the use of clock_gettime(2) instead." Some context, showing how use of gettimeofday() causes actual bugs (also read comments): http://blog.habets.pp.se/2010/09/gettimeofday-should-never-be-used-to-measure-time diff --git a/man2/times.2 b/man2/times.2 index a37874e..020103a 100644 --- a/man2/times.2 +++ b/man2/times.2 @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ combined with the fact that the returned value may overflow .IR clock_t , means that a portable application would be wise to avoid using this value. To measure changes in elapsed time, use -.BR gettimeofday (2) +.BR clock_gettime (2) instead. .\" .PP .\" On older systems the number of clock ticks per second is given -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
