[issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

Change by Serhiy Storchaka : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 -Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker

[issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset a6eac83c1804fd14ed076b1776ffeea8dcb9478a by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-20806: Reference both times(2) and times(3) and link to MSDN. (GH-15479) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a6eac83c1804fd14ed076b1776ffeea8dcb9478a --

[issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset cc51a6d7c7b6b06fb537860428347d88776d802b by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-20806: Reference both times(2) and times(3) and link to MSDN. (GH-15479) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cc51a6d7c7b6b06fb537860428347d88776d802b --

[issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

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[issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +15377 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15723 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: New changeset 3ccdbc33385a849c60a268def578cb06b8d41be6 by Serhiy Storchaka (Joannah Nanjekye) in branch 'master': bpo-20806: Reference both times(2) and times(3) and link to MSDN. (GH-15479) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3ccdbc33385a849c60a268def

[issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

Joannah Nanjekye added the comment: I updated the PR to reference times(2) and times(3) along with an MSDN link. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

Eryk Sun added the comment: The function's doc string also needs to be updated to use the correct field names: "user", "system", "children_user", "children_system", and "elapsed". > And we can also add a link to MSDN. os.times calls GetProcessTimes [1]. The user and kernel process times are

[issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

Joannah Nanjekye added the comment: Serhiy, This sounds good. I will update the PR. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-lis

[issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Section 3p is OS specific (Debian and derivatives). `man 3 times` works as well. But the manpages-posix-dev is not installed by default, so changing this will add a regression on Linux. I thank that it would be better to add both references, times(2) and t

[issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

Joannah Nanjekye added the comment: I opened a PR for this. @david please review. -- nosy: +nanjekyejoannah stage: patch review -> ___ Python tracker ___

[issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

Change by Joannah Nanjekye : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +15165 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15479 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

R. David Murray added the comment: section 2 is the linux man page (system calls). On the other hand, on a freebsd 6.4 system I have access to, 'man times' does show the man 3 page. Since linux normally ships with the posix man pages as well, we should probably change the the section referenc

[issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

New submission from Geoffrey Spear: The documentation for os.times directs the reader: "See the Unix manual page times(2) or the corresponding Windows Platform API documentation." However, the POSIX manual page in question is times(3P), and on OS X and BSD systems it's times(3). Falling back t