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			69 lines
		
	
	
		
			1.6 KiB
		
	
	
	
		
			Groff
		
	
	
	
	
	
.\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
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.\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
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.\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
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.\"
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.\"	@(#)times.3c	6.1 (Berkeley) 5/9/85
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.\"
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.TH TIMES 2 "May 9, 1985"
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.UC 4
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.SH NAME
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times \- get process times
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.ft B
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#include <sys/types.h>
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#include <sys/times.h>
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#include <time.h>
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int times(struct tms *\fIbuffer\fP)
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B Times
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returns time-accounting information
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for the current process
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and for the terminated child processes
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of the current process.
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All times are in 1/CLOCKS_PER_SEC seconds.
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.PP
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This is the structure returned by
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.BR times :
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.PP
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.RS
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.nf
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.ta +0.4i +0.8i +1.2i
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struct tms {
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	clock_t	tms_utime;	/* user time for this process */
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	clock_t	tms_stime;	/* system time for this process */
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	clock_t	tms_cutime;	/* children's user time */
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	clock_t	tms_cstime;	/* children's system time */
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};
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.fi
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.RE
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.PP
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The user time is the number of clock ticks used by a process on
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its own computations.  The system time is the number of clock ticks
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spent inside the kernel on behalf of a process.  This does not
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include time spent waiting for I/O to happen, only actual CPU
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instruction times.
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.PP
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The children times are the sum
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of the children's process times and
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their children's times.
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.SH RETURN
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.B Times
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returns 0 on success, otherwise \-1 with the error code stored into the
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global variable
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.BR errno .
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.SH ERRORS
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The following error code may be set in
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.BR errno :
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.TP 15
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[EFAULT]
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The address specified by the
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.I buffer
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parameter is not in a valid part of the process address space.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR time (1),
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.BR wait (2),
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.BR time (2).
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