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From: rda654z@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Evan McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: finding out the number of clock ticks
Keywords: how?
Message-ID: <1991May27.004930.11455@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 27 May 91 00:49:30 GMT
Organization: Monash Uni. (Faculty of things_that_go_bump_in_the_night)
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[NOTE :- I'm reposting this as our outside links were playing up over the
weekend.  Apologies to those who read this twice]

I'm trying to find a way to read the number of clock ticks since the start
of the program.  The c function call "times" is suppose to return this, but
doesn't seem to.

Does anybody know or has code/patches to allow a user program to find out the
number of clock ticks a process has been running for (or alternatively, the
number of clock ticks from some common reference point?)

In one of the C header files (I think it was "/usr/include/time.h" there is a
prototype for the function "clock" which, to my understanding, returns the
number of clock ticks that a program has been running.  This is exactly what
I want, unfortunately, I have not been able to find the source for this in
the libraries...

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Evan McLean
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