From 0e886e98626041d5c02e7d0602bfdf1cf7c8b1d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kondo, Naoya" Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 04:34:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] times.2: Fix an incorrect description in NOTES The text has an incorrect description in NOTES, it says that (2^32/HZ) - 300 is about 429 million. It is correct only if HZ=10 which does not look common today. So just removing "(i.e., about 429 million)" is good enough. ---- Signed-off-by: Naoya Kondo Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/times.2 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man2/times.2 b/man2/times.2 index dfec64dd9..9d63ca14a 100644 --- a/man2/times.2 +++ b/man2/times.2 @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ On Linux, the "arbitrary point in the past" from which the return value of is measured has varied across kernel versions. On Linux 2.4 and earlier this point is the moment the system was booted. Since Linux 2.6, this point is \fI(2^32/HZ) \- 300\fP -(i.e., about 429 million) seconds before system boot time. +seconds before system boot time. This variability across kernel versions (and across UNIX implementations), combined with the fact that the returned value may overflow the range of .IR clock_t ,