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author | rgrimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-05-27 05:00:24 +0000 |
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committer | rgrimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org> | 1994-05-27 05:00:24 +0000 |
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diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/times.3 b/lib/libc/gen/times.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..93207b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libc/gen/times.3 @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)times.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" +.Dd June 4, 1993 +.Dt TIMES 3 +.Os BSD 4 +.Sh NAME +.Nm times +.Nd process times +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Fd #include <sys/times.h> +.Ft clock_t +.Fn times "struct tms *tp" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Bf -symbolic +This interface is obsoleted by getrusage(2) +and gettimeofday(3). +.Ef +.Pp +The +.Fn times +function returns the value of time in +.Dv CLK_TCK Ns 's +of a second since +0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds, January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal +Time. +.Pp +It also fills in the structure pointed to by +.Fa tp +with time-accounting information. +.Pp +The +.Fa tms +structure is defined as follows: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +typedef struct { + clock_t tms_utime; + clock_t tms_stime; + clock_t tms_cutime; + clock_t tms_cstime; +} +.Ed +.Pp +The elements of this structure are defined as follows: +.Bl -tag -width tms_cutime +.It Fa tms_utime +The +.Tn CPU +time charged for the execution of user instructions. +.It Fa tms_stime +The +.Tn CPU +time charged for execution by the system on behalf of +the process. +.It Fa tms_cutime +The sum of the +.Fa tms_utime s +and +.Fa tms_cutime s +of the child processes. +.It Fa tms_cstime +The sum of the +.Fa tms_stime Ns s +and +.Fa tms_cstime Ns s +of the child processes. +.El +.Pp +All times are in +.Dv CLK_TCK Ns 's +of a second. +.Pp +The times of a terminated child process are included in the +.Fa tms_cutime +and +.Fa tms_cstime +elements of the parent when one of the +.Xr wait 2 +functions returns the process ID of the terminated child to the parent. +If an error occurs, +.Fn times +returns the value +.Pq (clock_t)\-1 , +and sets errno to indicate the error. +.Sh ERRORS +The +.Fn times +function +may fail and set the global variable +.Va errno +for any of the errors specified for the library +routines +.Xr getrusage 2 +and +.Xr gettimeofday 2 . +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr time 1 , +.Xr getrusage 2 , +.Xr gettimeofday 2 , +.Xr wait 2 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn times +function +conforms to +.St -p1003.1-88 . |