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<H1>times(2)</H1>
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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
times - get process times
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;sys/types.h&gt;</STRONG>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;sys/times.h&gt;</STRONG>
<STRONG>#include</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;time.h&gt;</STRONG>
<STRONG>int</STRONG> <STRONG>times(struct</STRONG> <STRONG>tms</STRONG> <STRONG>*</STRONG><EM>buffer</EM><STRONG>)</STRONG>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>Times</STRONG> returns time-accounting information for the current process and for
the terminated child processes of the current process. All times are in
1/CLOCKS_PER_SEC seconds.
This is the structure returned by <STRONG>times</STRONG>:
struct tms {
clock_t tms_utime; /* user time for this process */
clock_t tms_stime; /* system time for this process */
clock_t tms_cutime; /* children's user time */
clock_t tms_cstime; /* children's system time */
};
The user time is the number of clock ticks used by a process on its own
computations. The system time is the number of clock ticks spent inside
the kernel on behalf of a process. This does not include time spent
waiting for I/O to happen, only actual CPU instruction times.
The children times are the sum of the children's process times and their
children's times.
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<H2>RETURN</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>Times</STRONG> returns 0 on success, otherwise -1 with the error code stored into
the global variable <STRONG>errno</STRONG>.
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<H2>ERRORS</H2><PRE>
The following error code may be set in <STRONG>errno</STRONG>:
[EFAULT] The address specified by the <EM>buffer</EM> parameter is not in a
valid part of the process address space.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="../man1/time.1.html">time(1)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="../man2/wait.2.html">wait(2)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="../man2/time.2.html">time(2)</A></STRONG>.
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