bug in times.c
Siddhesh Poyarekar
siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com
Mon Mar 11 10:52:00 GMT 2013
On 11 March 2013 16:17, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> Holger Brunck <holger.brunck@keymile.com> writes:
>
>> times_now = times (NULL);
>
> Why do you think this is a valid use of the function?
Probably because it's allowed on Linux:
http://linux.die.net/man/2/times
Of course, I don't know why it would be useful to call times(NULL).
Maybe to just waste some time in a syscall.
Siddhesh
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