Getting running time of child

[Koffie Yahoo]

>> 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 that have terminated, not
for active children. I'm interested in active children.

Jay