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.\"	when SIGCHLD is being ignored is fixed in 2.6.9.
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.TH GETRUSAGE 2 2004-11-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
getrusage \- get resource usage
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <sys/time.h>
.br
.B #include <sys/resource.h>
.sp
.BI "int getrusage(int " who ", struct rusage *" usage );
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.BR getrusage ()
returns current resource usages, for a \fIwho\fP
of either
.B RUSAGE_SELF
or
.BR RUSAGE_CHILDREN .
The former asks for resources used by the current process,
the latter for resources used by those of its children
that have terminated and have been waited for.
.PP
.in +0.5i
.nf
struct rusage {
    struct timeval ru_utime; /* user time used */
    struct timeval ru_stime; /* system time used */
    long   ru_maxrss;        /* maximum resident set size */
    long   ru_ixrss;         /* integral shared memory size */
    long   ru_idrss;         /* integral unshared data size */
    long   ru_isrss;         /* integral unshared stack size */
    long   ru_minflt;        /* page reclaims */
    long   ru_majflt;        /* page faults */
    long   ru_nswap;         /* swaps */
    long   ru_inblock;       /* block input operations */
    long   ru_oublock;       /* block output operations */
    long   ru_msgsnd;        /* messages sent */
    long   ru_msgrcv;        /* messages received */
    long   ru_nsignals;      /* signals received */
    long   ru_nvcsw;         /* voluntary context switches */
    long   ru_nivcsw;        /* involuntary context switches */
};
.fi
.in -0.5i
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
On success, zero is returned.
On error, \-1 is returned, and
.I errno
is set appropriately.
.SH ERRORS
.TP
.B EFAULT
.I usage
points outside the accessible address space.
.TP
.B EINVAL
.I who
is invalid.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
SVr4, 4.3BSD.
POSIX.1-2001 specifies
.BR getrusage (),
but only specifies the fields
.I ru_utime
and
.IR ru_stime .
.SH NOTES
Including
.I <sys/time.h>
is not required these days, but increases portability.
(Indeed,
.I struct timeval
is defined in
.IR <sys/time.h> .)
.PP
In Linux kernel versions before 2.6.9, if the disposition of
.B SIGCHLD
is set to
.B SIG_IGN
then the resource usages of child processes
are automatically included in the value returned by
.BR RUSAGE_CHILDREN ,
although POSIX.1-2001 explicitly prohibits this.
This non-conformance is rectified in Linux 2.6.9 and later.
.\" See the description of getrusage() in XSH.
.\" A similar statement was also in SUSv2.
.LP
The above struct was taken from 4.3BSD Reno.
Not all fields are meaningful under Linux.
In linux 2.4 only the fields
.IR ru_utime ,
.IR ru_stime ,
.IR ru_minflt ,
and
.I ru_majflt
are maintained.
Since Linux 2.6,
.I ru_nvcsw
and
.I ru_nivcsw
are also maintained.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR getrlimit (2),
.BR times (2),
.BR wait (2),
.BR wait4 (2)