I've got some general questions about times(). Programming Perl lists this function as a problem for portable code, anybody know more specific details about what platforms it does or doesn't work on. I'm guess it's a Windows and possibly Mac OS (pre OS X) problem, but that's just a hunch.
Also, can anyone better explain the times it returns to me or point me to a helpful manpage (I've tried times and getrusage - which was close, but not detailed enough). What's the difference between user and system time? Does one include the other? Would you add them to get total time used by the process? Finally, basically what I'm needing to do is time some operations by grabbing a start time and the an end time. In a couple of places, I only need second accuracy, so time() could even work. In other places I need fractional seconds though, so times() looks like the better answer. Am I making the right assumptions here or am I missing some call that would be even better? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time. James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
