[so] Times

[Octavian Purdila]

On Saturday 20 November 2004 20:34, Octavian Purdila wrote:
> 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.
>

PS: cu times() exista probleme daca diferenta dintre timpul initial si cel 
final este mai mare de 70 de secunde. Chiar daca un overflow apare intre 
timpul initial si cel final, el se poate detecta.

tavi