TIMES(3C)                            BSD                             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:

          /*
           * Structure returned by times()
           */
          struct tms {
                 time_t  tms_utime;  /* user time */
                 time_t  tms_stime;  /* system time */
                 time_t  tms_cutime; /* user time, children */
                 time_t  tms_cstime; /* system time, children */
          };

     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)