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Old 09-23-2008
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara View Post
Otheus -
utimes is the call made by
Code:
 time <command>
It gives cumulative times for user and kernel, as well as cum process wall time.
Call it for a starting set of values and an ending set of values, then substract for a delta value.
I think you are confused. utime() and utimes() operate on an inode to change timestamps of files.