Re: Deprecate posix_times

Hi, As listed in my original thread, I think that offering posix_times without offering sysconf would be like offering a version of the microtime function, which returns a value divided by a *undocumented and unexposed divider that changes in each patch version of PHP*. The main reason I would like to see this deprecated is not the fact that it's returning a less precise value compared to getrusage, but rather because it's returning a value that cannot be interpreted in any way from pure PHP. Regards, Daniil Gentili. On 10/18/23 09:00, Christian Schneider wrote:

Am 17.10.2023 um 19:39 schrieb Daniil Gentili <daniil@daniil.it>:

I would like to submit an RFC (and related PR) to deprecate posix_times for PHP 8.4, removing it for PHP 9.

My question here would be: Is there sufficient reason to remove this function and introduce a BC break, i.e. is the implementation code hard to maintain or does the function cause security issues? Unless that is the case I'd leave it unchanged and just add a note to the documentation that people might want to consider using getrusage() instead. Regards, - Chris