NAME

times − get process times

SYNOPSIS

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

times(buffer)
struct tms ∗buffer;

DESCRIPTION

This interface is obsoleted by getrusage(2). 

Times returns time-accounting information for the current process and for the terminated child processes of the current process.  All times are in 60ths of a second (even in installations configured for 50 Hz powerline frequency). 

This is the structure returned by times:

/∗
∗ $Header: times.3c 1.1 89/11/06 $
∗/
 /∗
Structure returned by old times() interface
∗/
structure tms {
time_ttms_utime;/∗ user time ∗/
time_ttms_stime;/∗ system time ∗/
time_ttms_cutime;/∗ user time, children ∗/
time_ttms_ctime;/∗ system time, children ∗/
};

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

SEE ALSO

time(1), getrusage(2), wait3(2), time(3)

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