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From: sbs@csc.fi
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Does times() work on SUN's properly ?
Message-ID: <1990Aug16.190428.1@csc.fi>
Date: 16 Aug 90 19:04:28 GMT
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Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project - FUNET
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I have problem on our SUN/3 or SUN/4 that I cannot get correct elapsed
time (real time, wall clock time) from function times(). Following
code works on Cray/UNICOS and Iris-4D (under SYSTEM V):

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/times.h>
#include <sys/param.h>

time_t init_elapsed_time; /* usually time_t is typedefed to long */
struct tms timebuffer;
/* extern time_t times(); */

void starttime()
/* retrieve (elapsed) time since boot etc. */
{
	init_elapsed_time = times(&timebuffer);
}

void cputime(elapsed,usercpu,systemcpu)
/* retrieve CPU etc times spent after doing something */
float *elapsed,*usercpu,*systemcpu;
{
	*elapsed = (float) (times(&timebuffer)-init_elapsed_time) / HZ;
	*usercpu = (float) timebuffer.tms_utime/HZ;
	*systemcpu = (float) timebuffer.tms_stime/HZ;
	return;
}


main()
{
   float e,u,s;

   starttime(); /* initialize init_elapsed_time (may not be zero!) */


   /* do something */

   cputime(&e,&u,&s);

   /* print times */
}


And I will get that elapsed time (variable e) is equal to zero on our SUNs. 
What is going wrong here (on SUN)?

Please answer me directly (to sbs@csc.fi) or via NEWS .


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Sami Saarinen
Centre for Scientific Computing