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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: problem with time command? (/bin/time)
Message-ID: <1990Dec22.074748.10438@kithrup.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 90 07:47:48 GMT
References: <1471@beaudin.UUCP> <1054@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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In article <1054@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin) writes:
>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

On kithrup:

kithrup 1296$ /bin/time sleep 10

real        9.9
user        0.0
sys         0.0

>>The Csh time gives a value of 0:10.
>>Is /bin/time known to be incorrect?

I'd say, from experimentation, that it isn't incorrect.

I don't know what's wrong with your system; I suspect that you have changed
HZ somewhere (maybe by unsetting it?).  Do an

	echo $HZ

and see what it says (kithrup says 60).

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