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From: jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: problem with time command? (/bin/time)
Message-ID: <1054@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 21 Dec 90 16:12:13 GMT
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In article <1471@beaudin.UUCP> john@beaudin.UUCP (John Beaudin) writes:
>On SCO Unix 3.2.2, the results of 
>	$ /bin/time sleep 10
>are
>	real 5.9
>
>The Csh time gives a value of 0:10.
>Is /bin/time known to be incorrect?

From this description, and a similar expirence on a Motorola MPC, I
think that /bin/time is dividing the number of clock ticks as returned
by the times() system call by 100 rather than 60.  

I think that the /bin/time source compiles in the value of HZ from
<sys/param.h>.  If the header file is incorrect, then the wrong value
must have been compiled in.

I don't know why csh gets it right.  Perhaps it reads HZ from the
environment?

	--jtc

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