Unix Programming - Re: kernel timer

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Re: kernel timer

Loic Domaigne

2005-08-24, 9:56 pm

Salut Michael,

> I've been working on the code for a kernel timer which will report real
> time, CPU time, user time and kernel time on the operation of fibonacci
> method.

what Do you mean by CPU time?

Usually the interesting time collection is: execution time, user CPU
time, kernel CPU time.

> The way im doing it is keeping track of the parent and two child times
> (using fork()).

Make it (much) simpler: have a look to the function times():
man 2 times

HTH,
Loic.

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