Geoff Clare <g...@opengroup.org> wrote:
> > (The simplest proposal is to replace the ksh/bash/mksh/zsh(?) `time' with
> > `ptime' and go from there.)
>
> The new name needs to be something that is unlikely to be in use by
> applications or users already. I think ptime is not a good candidate,
> as it is a likely choice for an existing script, function or alias name.
Correct!
And ptime is in use since 1994, (written by Roger Faulkner) as part of the
ptools for procfs.
# ptime
usage: ptime [-mh] [-p pid | command [ args ... ]]
(time a command using microstate accounting)
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