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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
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Merging upstream version 6.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0-or-later
.\"
-.TH time 1 2023-07-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH time 1 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
time \- time a simple command or give resource usage
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ values in a
.I "struct tms"
as returned by
.BR times (2)).
-.PP
+.P
Note: some shells (e.g.,
.BR bash (1))
have a built-in
@@ -98,20 +98,20 @@ using the
option or the
.B TIME
environment variable.
-.PP
+.P
The default format string is:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
%Uuser %Ssystem %Eelapsed %PCPU (%Xtext+%Ddata %Mmax)k
%Iinputs+%Ooutputs (%Fmajor+%Rminor)pagefaults %Wswaps
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
When the
.I \-p
option is given, the (portable) output format is used:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
real %e
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ The conversions follow.
All of those used by
.BR tcsh (1)
are supported.
-.PP
+.P
.B "Time"
.TP
.B %E
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ Total number of CPU-seconds that the process spent in user mode.
.TP
.B %P
Percentage of the CPU that this job got, computed as (%U + %S) / %E.
-.PP
+.P
.B "Memory"
.TP
.B %M
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Number of times the process was context-switched involuntarily
.B %w
Number of waits: times that the program was context-switched voluntarily,
for instance while waiting for an I/O operation to complete.
-.PP
+.P
.B "I/O"
.TP
.B %I
@@ -272,10 +272,10 @@ Not all resources are measured by all versions of UNIX,
so some of the values might be reported as zero.
The present selection was mostly inspired by the data
provided by 4.2 or 4.3BSD.
-.PP
+.P
GNU time version 1.7 is not yet localized.
Thus, it does not implement the POSIX requirements.
-.PP
+.P
The environment variable
.B TIME
was badly chosen.
@@ -287,14 +287,14 @@ to use environment variables with the name of a utility to override
the utility to be used.
Uses like MORE or TIME for options to programs
(instead of program pathnames) tend to lead to difficulties.
-.PP
+.P
It seems unfortunate that
.I \-o
overwrites instead of appends.
(That is, the
.I \-a
option should be the default.)
-.PP
+.P
Mail suggestions and bug reports for GNU
.B time
to
@@ -302,13 +302,13 @@ to
Please include the version of
.BR time ,
which you can get by running
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
time \-\-version
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
and the operating system
and C compiler you used.
.\" .SH AUTHORS