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author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1995-09-13 17:36:35 (GMT) |
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committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1995-09-13 17:36:35 (GMT) |
commit | 1e150618a3c0716b48db346a5d315298e3d7d8b8 (patch) | |
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add realtime as 5th item to os.times() return value
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposix.tex b/Doc/lib/libposix.tex index 71798a4..643cfda 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libposix.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libposix.tex @@ -300,9 +300,11 @@ value is the exit status of the process as returned by Standard C \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{times}{} -Return a 4-tuple of floating point numbers indicating accumulated CPU +Return a 5-tuple of floating point numbers indicating accumulated (CPU +or other) times, in seconds. The items are: user time, system time, children's -user time, and children's system time, in that order. See the \UNIX{} +user time, children's system time, and elapsed real time since a fixed +point in the past, in that order. See the \UNIX{} manual page {\it times}(2). (Not on MS-DOS.) \end{funcdesc} |