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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} diff --git a/Doc/libposix.tex b/Doc/libposix.tex index 71798a4..643cfda 100644 --- a/Doc/libposix.tex +++ b/Doc/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} |