NAME
getrusage, vtimes - Gets information about resource utiliza-
tion
LIBRARY
Berkeley Compatibility Library (libbsd.a)
(vtimes() only)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>
int getrusage (
int who,
struct rusage *r_usage );
#include <sys/vtimes.h>
vtimes (
struct vtimes *par_vm,
struct vtimes ch_vm );
PARAMETERS
who Specifies one of the following:
RUSAGE_SELF
Retrieve information about resources used by the
current process.
RUSAGE_CHILDREN
Retrieve information about resources used by child
processes of the current process.
r_usage
Points to a buffer that will be filled in as described
in the sys/resource.h header file.
DESCRIPTION
The getrusage() function returns information describing the
resources utilized by the current process or its terminated
child processes.
NOTES
The numbers the ru_inblock and ru_outblock fields of the
rusage structure account only for real I/O; data supplied by
the caching mechanism is charged only to the first process
to read or write the data.
The vtimes() function is supported to provide compatibility
with older programs. It is superceded by the getrusage()
function.
The vtimes() function returns accounting information for the
current process and for the terminated child processes of
the current process. Either par_vm or ch_vm or both may be
zero, in which case only the information for the pointers
which are nonzero are returned.
After the call, each buffer contains information as defined
by the contents of the sys/vtimes.h include file.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the getrusage(), function
returns 0 (zero). Otherwise, -1 is returned and errno is
set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
If the getrusage() function fails, errno may be set to one
of the following values:
[EINVAL] The who parameter is not a valid value.
[EFAULT] The address specified for r_usage is not valid.
RELATED INFORMATION
Functions: gettimer(3), time(3), times(3), wait(2)
Acknowledgement and Disclaimer