Re: time builtin

[Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>]

Goran Larsson wrote:
> Now printtime() in 2.6-beta13 had this code:
> 
>     if (percent > 100)
>         percent = 100;   /* just to make it look right */
> 
> but that was removed in 3.0.0. Reinserting those two lines
> in 3.0.0 obviously ``fixes'' the problem, or perhaps it is
> more accurate to say that it hides the real problem again.
> 
> Is it possible to fix this, or are the times here just to
> close to the resolution provided by the kernel?

Perhaps.  Or it may be a kernel bug.  Solaris has one.  Try the program
below.  It prints three time lines, and the last two shoud be the same.
That's not the case on Solaris.

What happens:

A forks B, B forks C and exits.  C consumes CPU time then exits.  This is
accounted for A but A does not receive the child signal when C dies so it
siply accounts this time to its next child.

Zoltan


#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/times.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void
printsig(int signum)
{
    printf("Received signal %d\n", signum);
}

void
install_handler(int sig, void (*handler)(int))
{
    struct sigaction act;
 
    act.sa_handler = handler;
    sigemptyset(&act.sa_mask);        /* only block sig while in handler */
    act.sa_flags = 0;
    sigaction(sig, &act, (struct sigaction *)NULL);
}

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    pid_t ppid = getpid();
    pid_t pid, wpid;
    int status;
    struct tms tms;
    double clktck = sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK);

    pid = fork();
    if (pid < 0) {
	perror(argv[0]);
	exit(1);
    } else if (!pid) {
	int i;

	if (fork())
	    exit(0);
	for (i = 100000000; i--;);
	kill(ppid, SIGUSR1);
	exit(1);
    }
    install_handler(SIGUSR1, printsig);
    install_handler(SIGCHLD, printsig);
    while ((wpid = wait(&status)) == -1)
	perror(argv[0]);
    if (wpid != pid) {
	fprintf(stderr, "%s: unknown child: %d instead of %d.\n",
		argv[0], (int) wpid, (int) pid);
	exit(1);
    }
    times(&tms);
    printf("%.2fs system, %.2fs user\n",
	   tms.tms_cstime / clktck, tms.tms_cutime / clktck);
    pause();
    times(&tms);
    printf("%.2fs system, %.2fs user\n",
	   tms.tms_cstime / clktck, tms.tms_cutime / clktck);
    sleep(2);
    times(&tms);
    printf("%.2fs system, %.2fs user\n",
	   tms.tms_cstime / clktck, tms.tms_cutime / clktck);
    exit(0);
}