JEP 102 Process Updates revised API draft

[Roger Riggs]

Thanks for the suggestions and confirmation that Duration is not a misuse
of that type for this purpose.

Roger


On 2/10/2015 2:38 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> On 9 February 2015 at 23:44, David M. Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
>> ProcessHandle.Info provides a startTime and totalTime.  But it seems odd and
>> inconsistent that startTime is an Instant, yet totalTime is a raw long as
>> opposed to the arguably more consistent Duration.  Is there a reason you
>> went with a raw long for this property?
> I think using Duration would be OK here, even though the CPU time was
> used up in a discontinuous manner. The returned value is, in essence,
> a sum of many smaller durations.
>
> I'd also suggest adjusting the two method names:
> startTime() -> startInstant()
> totalTime() -> totalCpuDuration()
>
> Those communicate the intent more clearly IMO.
>
> Stephen