From: alain AT qnx DOT com (Alain Magloire)
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Subject: Re: `void main' in Gnu packages---?!
Date: 14 Jan 2000 21:48:23 GMT
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Jeff Williams (jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org) wrote:
: -: I'm certainly curious to know in which program/package, since most of the
: -: GNU *utils are design to be use with Unix shells so the return
: -: value of main is important when doing shell scripts.

: One place I found it was in time.c of the GNU time-1.7.tar.gz archive.
: This compiled right out of the box (well, almost), but when I ran the
: executable I got a brutal reminder that DOS can't fork().  Duh. [:-/

8-)
time as not been maintained for a long long time.  But I suspect
you could use spawn () to emulate the fork ().  My guest is that
time probably call time () or gettimeofday() and fork ()/ exec ()
and wait () till completion to recall time()/gettimeofday() and 
then show you the stats. This is a good approximation,
for OS who do not support fully  getrusage ().  Does  DJGPP
support getrusage () ?

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au revoir, alain
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