[issue1040026] os.times() is bogus

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> compilation indeed breaks if sysconf is available but _SC_CLK_TCK is
> not. My Unix-foo is not sufficient to confidently say that this is
> impossible

To make such a statement, one would need knowledge of all operating
system releases that have ever been made, including releases that didn't
make it to the public. It might be that POSIX mandates _SC_CLK_TCK,
but that would be irrelevant, as systems might chose not to comply with
POSIX in this aspect.

> In the other case you mention, where neither sysconf nor HZ are
> available, the old default of 60 could be used instead. 

That would probably be safest, although I could also accept that
os.times becomes unavailable on such a system.

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