TIMES(2)                                                 TIMES(2)



     NAME
          times - get process and child process times

     SYNOPSIS
          #include <sys/types.h>
          #include <sys/times.h>
          #include <sys/param.h>

          long times (buffer)
          struct tms *buffer;

     DESCRIPTION
          times fills the structure pointed to by buffer with time-
          accounting information.  The following are the contents of
          this structure:

          struct    tms {
               time_t      tms_utime;
               time_t      tms_stime;
               time_t      tms_cutime;
               time_t      tms_cstime;
          };

          This information comes from the calling process and each of
          its terminated child processes for which it has executed a
          wait.  All times are reported in clock ticks per second.
          Clock ticks are a system-dependent parameter.  The specific
          value for an implementation is defined by the variable HZ,
          found in the include file param.h in /usr/include/sys.

          Tms_utime is the CPU time used while executing instructions
          in the user space of the calling process.

          Tms_stime is the CPU time used by the system on behalf of
          the calling process.

          Tms_cutime is the sum of the tms_utimes and tms_cutimes of
          the child processes.

          Tms_cstime is the sum of the tms_stimes and tms_cstimes of
          the child processes.

          [EFAULT]  times will fail if buffer points to an illegal
                    address.

     SEE ALSO
          exec(2), fork(2), time(2), wait(2).

     DIAGNOSTICS
          Upon successful completion, times returns the elapsed real
          time, in clock ticks per second, from an arbitrary point in
          the past (e.g., system start-up time).  This point does not



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          change from one invocation of times to another.  If times
          fails, a -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the
          error.

     ORIGIN
          AT&T V.3

















































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