Getting running time of child

Dear all, I've looked but not found (and I hope I'm in the right group here): Is there a way to get the user time and system time of a /running/ child from its parent (without having to mount procfs)? As far as I was able to tell, I can get the total of user and system time using kvm_getprocs, but

Re: Getting running time of child

>> I've looked but not found (and I hope I'm in the right group here): Is >> there a way to get the user time and system time of a /running/ child >> from its parent (without having to mount procfs)? > > If you have only one child, there's getrusage(2). Unfortunately, that only works for children

Re: Getting running time of child

> It's not as portable as getrusage(2), but you could probably get the > information you want using libkvm's kvm_getprocs(3) function. The > information available is defined in the kinfo_proc structure in > /usr/include/sys/user.h. Unfortunately, as far as I can see the kinfo_proc structure only c

Re: Getting running time of child

That's it! Thanks! Problem solved :-) Jay On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 19), Koffie Yahoo said: >> > It's not as portable as getrusage(2), but you could probably get the >> > information you want using libkvm&