address@hidden: Bug#186448: time: time's memory usage tracking is broken]

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi,

I'm Debian's maintainer for GNU time, and received the following bug report.
As time has been de facto without an upstream maintainer for years, I am
taking the liberty of forwarding the report to this list in the hope that
either someone may come forward to work on this, or better still, someone
already is and he may tell me :). 

A little bit on an ensuing email exchange between Peter and myself is in the
Debian bug archive at the address http://bugs.debian.org/186448
         
Regards,  Dirk   

----- Forwarded message from Peter Eckersley <address@hidden> -----

Envelope-to: address@hidden
Delivery-date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:38:58 -0600
Subject: Bug#186448: time: time's memory usage tracking is broken
Reply-To: Peter Eckersley <address@hidden>, address@hidden
From: Peter Eckersley <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden

Package: time
Version: 1.7-15
Severity: normal

Some of time's documented memory tracking features don't appear to work:

address@hidden:~$ /usr/bin/time -f "%M mem, %K avg, %F/%R pfs" vim 
/debian/Contents-i386.gz

0 mem, 0 avg, 1039/23403 pfs

Is this possibly kernel-related?  The relevant data structure is in
/usr/include/linux/resource.h, which indicates that some parts of struct rusage
don't exist yet (in which case, should these flags be taken out of the man
page?)

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux luminance.reworld.org 2.4.17 #1 Tue Feb 12 13:29:22 EST 
2002 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages time depends on:
ii  libc6          2.3.1-13       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone



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