TIMES(3C) TIMES(3C)
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 1/HZ seconds, where HZ is 60.
This is the structure returned by times:
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)
4th Berkeley Distribution May 9, 1985 TIMES(3C)
