> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 00:42:22 +0100 > From: Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> > CC: bug-gnulib@gnu.org > > > . 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.
