[nptl] Re: NPTL Issue getrusage() / times

[Sebastien Decugis <sebastien.decugis@ext.bull.net>]

Moin ;)

> accordingly to SUSv3, getrusage() and times() should return the timing 
> (user and system time) information for the *process*. That is the sum 
> over all thread's time.
> 
> With NPTL, the timing is thread-wise only. That is, the timing is given 
> only for the thread that calls getrusage(), resp. times(). This deviates 
> from SUSv3.
> 
> I would definitively keep that neat feature of obtaining timing 
> thread-wise, but not with the standard getrusage(), resp. times().
> 
> If you like, I can devise a test program proving my claim.
> 

I don't know the getrusage() and times() internals, but it looks like
things are moving in the glibc as the clocks CLOCK_*_CPUTIME_ID are
bogus in the current CVS (are you subscribed to libc-alpha
mailing-list?). Maybe this is related to the issue you're seeing? 

Seb.

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