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From: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: problem with time command? (/bin/time)
Message-ID: <5300@segue.segue.com>
Date: 22 Dec 90 20:23:37 GMT
References: <1471@beaudin.UUCP> <1054@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Reply-To: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
Organization: Segue Software, Inc. - Santa Monica, CA. +1-213-453-2161
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In article <1054@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin) writes:
] 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?

Correct programs use sysconf() instead of sys/param.h.