[COMMITTED] Clarify comments in Linux times() implementation.
Andreas Schwab
schwab@suse.de
Mon Jun 20 07:32:00 GMT 2016
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> writes:
> + /* On Linux this function never fails except with EFAULT.
> + POSIX says that returning a value (clock_t) -1 indicates an error,
> + but on Linux this is simply one of the valid clock values after
> + clock_t wraps. Therefore when we would return (clock_t) -1, we
> + instead return (clock_t) 0, and loose a tick of accuracy (having
s/loose/lose/
Andreas.
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