Re: wraparound value for (user) time

2004-03-23 Thread Chris Landauer
hihi, dan - you werote: Which value wrapped? user, system, or elapsed? The best I could come up with was that elapsed time might be stored in a long variable in milliseconds, which would wrap at 49.7 days. User and system times are stored as struct timevals and should never wrap. thanx

Re: wraparound value for (user) time

2004-03-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 23), Chris Landauer said: you werote: Which value wrapped? user, system, or elapsed? The best I could come up with was that elapsed time might be stored in a long variable in milliseconds, which would wrap at 49.7 days. User and system times are stored as