getrusage(2)							System Calls Manual						      getrusage(2)

NAME

       getrusage - get information about resource utilization

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       The  function  provides	measures  of  the resources used by the current process or its terminated and waited-for child processes.  If  the
       value of the who argument is information is returned about resources used by the current process. If the  value	of  the  who  argument	is
       information is returned about resources used by the terminated and waited-for children of the current process. If the child is never waited
       for (for instance, if the parent has set or sets to the resource information for the child process is discarded and  not  included  in  the
       resource information provided by The r_usage argument is a pointer to an object of type in which the returned information is stored.

       If  the current process is multi-threaded, returns the information about the resources used by all the active and the reaped threads/light-
       weight processes in the current process if the value of the who argument is If the value  of  the  who  argument  is  in  a  multi-threaded
       process, information returned is the same as it would be for a single-threaded process.

RETURN VALUE

       Upon successful completion, returns Otherwise, is returned, and is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       The function will fail if:

	      [EINVAL]	     The value of the who argument is not valid.

SEE ALSO

       exit(2), sigaction(2), time(1), times(2), wait(1), <sys/resource.h>.

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