Hi, times(2) man page has an incorrect description in NOTES, it says that (2^32/HZ) - 300 is about 429 million. It is correct only if HZ=10 which does not look common today. So just removing "(i.e., about 429 million)" is good enough. ---- Signed-off-by: Naoya Kondo <kondo-naoya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man-pages-4.04/man2/times.2 2015-12-29 21:51:44.000000000 +0900 +++ man-pages-4.04-fix/man2/times.2 2016-02-25 12:04:33.062739815 +0900 @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ is measured has varied across kernel versions. On Linux 2.4 and earlier this point is the moment the system was booted. Since Linux 2.6, this point is \fI(2^32/HZ) \- 300\fP -(i.e., about 429 million) seconds before system boot time. +seconds before system boot time. This variability across kernel versions (and across UNIX implementations), combined with the fact that the returned value may overflow the range of .IR clock_t , -- 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
