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From: bruce@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Bruce Worden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Does times() work on SUN's properly ?
Keywords: System V, real time
Message-ID: <1990Aug16.183606.6753@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu>
Date: 16 Aug 90 18:36:06 GMT
References: <1990Aug16.190428.1@csc.fi>
Sender: bruce@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Bruce Worden)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, CA
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In article <1990Aug16.190428.1@csc.fi> sbs@csc.fi writes:
>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):

> [code deleted]

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

The problem appears to be that you are using the /usr/ucb cc, whose 
times() call returns 0 on success or -1 on failure.  If you want to 
use times() as you have it here, you can use the cc in /usr/5bin, which 
uses the sysV libraries and works the way you want. 
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Bruce Worden                            bruce@seismo.gps.caltech.edu
252-21 Seismological Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125
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