ruby--ruby/spec/rubyspec/core/process/times_spec.rb

require File.expand_path('../../../spec_helper', __FILE__)

describe "Process.times" do
  it "returns a Struct::Tms" do
    Process.times.should be_kind_of(Struct::Tms)
  end

  it "returns current cpu times" do
    t = Process.times

    # Do busy work for a wall-clock interval.
    start = Time.now
    1 until (Time.now - start) > 0.5

    # Ensure times is larger. NOTE that there is no
    # guarantee of an upper bound since anything may be
    # happening at the OS level, so we ONLY check that at
    # least an interval has elapsed. Also, we are assuming
    # there is a correlation between wall clock time and
    # process time. In practice, there is an observed
    # discrepancy often 10% or greater. In other words,
    # this is a very fuzzy test.
    t2 = Process.times
    diff = (t2.utime + t2.stime) - (t.utime + t.stime)
    diff.should > 0
  end
end