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Re: Was getrusage broken ?



On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:15:48PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have ported my package pari-gp to hppa, but before holydays the timer
> reported ridiculously low timing. It use getrusage. 
> 
> (Un)Fortunately, now the timer is OK, so maybe it was a bug in the libc that
> have been solved since ?
> 
> Thanks to let me know if you have information about a recent fix of getrusage.

Not getrusage specifically, but a recent version of the kernel did
have extremely broken accounting of time.  This was fixed a while ago
(before xmas), but possibly not on the machine you were using.

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