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28 .\" @(#)times.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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43 .Fn times "struct tms *tp"
46 This interface is obsoleted by
54 function returns the value of time in
56 of a second since the system startup time.
59 the frequency of the statistics clock in ticks per second, may be
64 It also fills in the structure pointed to by
66 with time-accounting information.
70 structure is defined as follows:
71 .Bd -literal -offset indent
80 The elements of this structure are defined as follows:
81 .Bl -tag -width ".Va tms_cutime"
85 time charged for the execution of user instructions.
89 time charged for execution by the system on behalf of
96 of the child processes.
102 of the child processes.
109 The times of a terminated child process are included in the
113 elements of the parent when one of the
115 functions returns the process ID of the terminated child to the parent.
119 .Pq Po Vt clock_t Pc Ns \-1 ,
122 to indicate the error.
127 may fail and set the global variable
129 for any of the errors specified for the library