time usage for subprocesses
Zack Weinberg
zack@bitmover.com
Fri Aug 6 23:47:00 GMT 1999
Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> In message < 199908070600.XAA07912@zack.bitmover.com >you write:
> > The alternatives seem to be getrusage and times, and - as far as I can
> > tell - they will only report *combined* child process times, which
> > defeats the purpose. I could put the reporting code into the
> > children, but I liked that the change was limited to the driver.
> But it's trivial to get deltas given the rusage stats as you wait on
> each process in succession.
My impression was that times() and getrusage(RUSAGE_CHILDREN, ...)
would give me cumulative execution times for all the children up to
the moment I made the call. Is that not the case?
Sorry for asking for a portability lesson...
zw
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