On 06/08/2014 04:23 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > The gnulib implementation of 'times' for MS-Windows uses the process > creation time returned by the GetProcessTimes API to construct the > value that the function should return. > > This has 2 problems: > > . The value is constant: every call to 'times' within the same > process returns the same value. Callers generally expect the > value to change, since Posix says the value is the elapsed time > since some arbitrary point in time, and that point doesn't change > for function calls in the same process. For example, Guile's test > suite includes a test that calls 'times', sleeps for a few > seconds, then calls 'times' again, and expects the return value to > change by approximately the number of seconds it slept.
This seems correct. I.E. times() should count up. I'll merge this but with s/change by/change according to/ in the line above. thanks! Pádraig.
