NAME

times − get process times

SYNOPSIS

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

int times(tmsp)
register struct tms ∗tmsp;

DESCRIPTION

times() returns time-accounting information for the current process and for the terminated child processes of the current process.  All times are reported in clock ticks.  The number of clock ticks per second is defined by the variable CLK_TCK, found in the header <limits.h>. 

A structure with the following members is returned by times():

time_ttms_utime;/∗ user time ∗/
time_ttms_stime;/∗ system time ∗/
time_ttms_cutime;/∗ user time, children ∗/
time_ttms_cstime;/∗ system time, children ∗/

The children’s times are the sum of the children’s process times and their children’s times. 

RETURN VALUES

times() returns

0 on success. 

−1 on failure. 

SEE ALSO

time(1), time(2), wait(2), getrusage(3C)

NOTES

Use of these interfaces should be restricted to only applications written on BSD platforms.  Use of these interfaces with any of the system libraries or in multi-thread applications is unsupported. 

times() has been superseded by getrusage(3C). 

SunOS 5.5.1  —  Last change: 18 Apr 1994