in reply to Re^4: Timer implementation
in thread Timer implementation

Er... wasn't it so that the user and system times only concern the current process, not its possible children? That's my reading of the man page, and has been my belief so far.
The real time of course does take the children into account...

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Re^6: Timer implementation
by bash (Scribe) on Sep 16, 2008 at 13:47 UTC
    Nope, my process doesn have any children. Real time count sleep time, this is why real-time will be always >= then sys+user time )
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