From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T02:44:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Retrieving PID running time

On 12/8/05, gwtmp01@mac.com <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 8, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > Yes, but what I want (in Ruby) is something like:
> >
> > ptime = Process.pid.time
> >
> > How can I do that?
>
> This sort of thing is very platform specific.  I'm assuming
> a unix/linux/macosx environment.  I can't answer for Windows.
>
> For your own process you can use Process::times, which
> probably ends up calling getrusage(), a kernel system
> call.  See the Ruby doc for Process::times, and your system
> docs for getrusage.

I thought Process::times just returned the system and user cpu time,
not the total real time since the application was started.