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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-17 10:51:52 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-17 10:51:52 +0000
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--- a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man2/times.2
+++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man2/times.2
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
.\" Added notes on nonstandard behavior: Linux allows 'buf' to
.\" be NULL, but POSIX.1 doesn't specify this and it's nonportable.
.\"
-.TH times 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH times 2 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
.SH NAME
times \- get process times
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <sys/times.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "clock_t times(struct tms *" buf );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ The
.I struct tms
is as defined in
.IR <sys/times.h> :
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
struct tms {
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ struct tms {
};
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
The
.I tms_utime
field contains the CPU time spent executing instructions
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The
.I tms_stime
field contains the CPU time spent executing inside the kernel
while performing tasks on behalf of the calling process.
-.PP
+.P
The
.I tms_cutime
field contains the sum of the
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ field contains the sum of the
and
.I tms_cstime
values for all waited-for terminated children.
-.PP
+.P
Times for terminated children (and their descendants)
are added in at the moment
.BR wait (2)
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ returns their process ID.
In particular,
times of grandchildren
that the children did not wait for are never seen.
-.PP
+.P
All times reported are in clock ticks.
.SH RETURN VALUE
.BR times ()
@@ -120,12 +120,12 @@ POSIX.1-2008.
POSIX.1-2001,
SVr4,
4.3BSD.
-.PP
+.P
In POSIX.1-1996 the symbol \fBCLK_TCK\fP (defined in
.IR <time.h> )
is mentioned as obsolescent.
It is obsolete now.
-.PP
+.P
Before Linux 2.6.9,
if the disposition of
.B SIGCHLD
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ This nonconformance is rectified in Linux 2.6.9 and later.
.\" See the description of times() in XSH, which says:
.\" The times of a terminated child process are included... when wait()
.\" or waitpid() returns the process ID of this terminated child.
-.PP
+.P
On Linux,
the \[lq]arbitrary point in the past\[rq]
from which the return value of
@@ -164,10 +164,10 @@ To measure changes in elapsed time,
use
.BR clock_gettime (2)
instead.
-.\" .PP
+.\" .P
.\" On older systems the number of clock ticks per second is given
.\" by the variable HZ.
-.PP
+.P
SVr1-3 returns
.I long
and the struct members are of type
@@ -182,13 +182,13 @@ because it had no type
yet.
.SH NOTES
The number of clock ticks per second can be obtained using:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK);
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
Note that
.BR clock (3)
also returns a value of type