PROLOG¶

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME¶

sys/times.h — file access and modification times structure

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <sys/times.h>

DESCRIPTION¶

The <sys/times.h> header shall define the tms structure, which is returned by times() and shall include at least the following members:

clock_t  tms_utime  User CPU time.
clock_t  tms_stime  System CPU time.
clock_t  tms_cutime User CPU time of terminated child processes.
clock_t  tms_cstime System CPU time of terminated child processes.

The <sys/times.h> header shall define the clock_t type as described in <sys/types.h>.

The following shall be declared as a function and may also be defined as a macro. A function prototype shall be provided.

clock_t times(struct tms *);

The following sections are informative.

APPLICATION USAGE¶

None.

RATIONALE¶

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS¶

None.

SEE ALSO¶

<sys_types.h>

The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1‐2008, times()

COPYRIGHT¶

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .