Merge "Explain why clock(3) isn't broken."

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Elliott Hughes 2014-09-12 23:52:13 +00:00 committed by Gerrit Code Review
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clock_t clock() {
tms t;
times(&t);
// Although times(2) and clock(3) both use the type clock_t, the units are
// different. For times(2) it's pure clock ticks, but for clock(3) the unit
// is CLOCKS_PER_SEC, so we need to scale appropriately.
return (t.tms_utime + t.tms_stime) * (CLOCKS_PER_SEC / sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK));
}