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1.\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
2.\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
3.\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
4.\"
852c0942 5.\" @(#)times.3 6.1 (Berkeley) %G%
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852c0942 7.TH TIMES 3C ""
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8.UC 4
9.SH NAME
10times \- get process times
11.SH SYNOPSIS
12.nf
13.B "#include <sys/types.h>
14.B "#include <sys/times.h>
15.PP
16.B times(buffer)
17.B struct tms *buffer;
18.fi
19.SH DESCRIPTION
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20.ft B
21This interface is obsoleted by getrusage(2).
22.ft R
23.PP
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24.I Times
25returns time-accounting information
26for the current process
27and for the terminated child processes
28of the current process.
80cc0fcb 29All times are in 1/HZ seconds, where HZ is 60.
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30.PP
31This is the structure returned by
32.IR times :
33.PP
34.nf
35.so /usr/include/sys/times.h
36.PP
37.fi
38The children times are the sum
39of the children's process times and
40their children's times.
41.SH "SEE ALSO"
80cc0fcb 42time(1), getrusage(2), wait3(2), time(3)