Getting running time of child

[Boris Kochergin]

Koffie Yahoo wrote:
>>> 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
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It's not as portable as getrusage(2), but you could probably get the 
information you want using libkvm's kvm_getprocs(3) function. The 
information available is defined in the kinfo_proc structure in 
/usr/include/sys/user.h.

-Boris