[so] Times

[Octavian Purdila]

On Saturday 20 November 2004 20:22, dalex alex wrote:
> --- Octavian Purdila <tavi@cs.pub.ro> wrote:
> > Nu. IOTime se calculeaza ca diferente timpului
> > absolut, si nu a CPUTime-ului
> > (folosesti ce intoarce times si nu tms->tms_stime)
>
> Din man pt times:
>
> The function times returns the number of clock ticks
> that have elapsed since an arbitrary point in the
> past. For Linux this  point
>        is  the  moment the system was booted.  This
> return value may overflow the possible range of type
> clock_t.
>
> Din cate stiu eu, cam la 70 si ceva de minute, times()
> o ia de la inceput. Asta ar putea sa fie o problema in
> calcularea timpilor daca pornim procesele aproape de
> acest moment.
>

Corect :) Din fericire exista gettimeofday.

tavi