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From: xxrich@alliant1.lerc.nasa.gov (Rich Rinehart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.alliant
Subject: etime and process forking
Message-ID: <1990May30.181000.18273@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 30 May 90 18:10:00 GMT
Reply-To: xxrich@alliant1.lerc.nasa.gov (Rich Rinehart)
Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland
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Could anyone give me an in-depth description of etime's 
user and system time values?  Does a parent process keep
track of it's children's times?

ex:
	get etime values
	 fork processes and do some work
	get etime again

When I compute the total user time here what will it
represent?  And the system time?

thanks for any info.
-rich


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