Re: time-1.7 counts rusage wrong on Linux

Hello Thomas,

I think I have a patch for this lying around somewhere.  I will take 
care of it in the next release.

DCN

On 02/15/2013 04:25 PM, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> time-1.7 converts rusage values from page size units to K, unconditionally,
> but this is wrong at least on Linux, where they are already reported in K.
> That results in time printing out values that are four times too big.
>
> The source contains the comment "Note: Some machines express getrusage
> statistics in terms of K, others in terms of pages." but has no actual code
> that attempts to tell or ever works for those "some machines".
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Please keep me in the reply list on replies; I'm not subscribed to
> bug-gnu-utils.
>
> Thomas