Hello Naoya, On 02/26/2016 05:34 AM, Kondo, Naoya wrote: > 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. Thanks for the patch. I've applied it. Cheers, Michael > ---- > 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 , > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
