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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1995-09-13 17:36:35 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1995-09-13 17:36:35 (GMT)
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add realtime as 5th item to os.times() return value
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@@ -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}