NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | VERSIONS | ATTRIBUTES | CONFORMING TO | NOTES | EXAMPLE | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

CLOCK_GETCPUCLOCKID(3)    Linux Programmer's Manual   CLOCK_GETCPUCLOCKID(3)

NAME         top

       clock_getcpuclockid - obtain ID of a process CPU-time clock

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <time.h>
       int clock_getcpuclockid(pid_t pid, clockid_t *clock_id);
       Link with -lrt (only for glibc versions before 2.17).
   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
       clock_getcpuclockid():
           _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L

DESCRIPTION         top

       The clock_getcpuclockid() function obtains the ID of the CPU-time
       clock of the process whose ID is pid, and returns it in the location
       pointed to by clock_id.  If pid is zero, then the clock ID of the
       CPU-time clock of the calling process is returned.

RETURN VALUE         top

       On success, clock_getcpuclockid() returns 0; on error, it returns one
       of the positive error numbers listed in ERRORS.

ERRORS         top

       ENOSYS The kernel does not support obtaining the per-process CPU-time
              clock of another process, and pid does not specify the calling
              process.
       EPERM  The caller does not have permission to access the CPU-time
              clock of the process specified by pid.  (Specified in
              POSIX.1-2001; does not occur on Linux unless the kernel does
              not support obtaining the per-process CPU-time clock of
              another process.)
       ESRCH  There is no process with the ID pid.

VERSIONS         top

       The clock_getcpuclockid() function is available in glibc since
       version 2.2.

ATTRIBUTES         top

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
       attributes(7).
       ┌──────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │Interface             Attribute     Value   │
       ├──────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │clock_getcpuclockid() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └──────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

CONFORMING TO         top

       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

NOTES         top

       Calling clock_gettime(2) with the clock ID obtained by a call to
       clock_getcpuclockid() with a pid of 0, is the same as using the clock
       ID CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID.

EXAMPLE         top

       The example program below obtains the CPU-time clock ID of the
       process whose ID is given on the command line, and then uses
       clock_gettime(2) to obtain the time on that clock.  An example run is
       the following:
           $ ./a.out 1                 # Show CPU clock of init process
           CPU-time clock for PID 1 is 2.213466748 seconds
   Program source
       #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600
       #include <stdio.h>
       #include <unistd.h>
       #include <stdlib.h>
       #include <time.h>
       int
       main(int argc, char *argv[])
       {
           clockid_t clockid;
           struct timespec ts;
           if (argc != 2) {
               fprintf(stderr, "%s <process-ID>\n", argv[0]);
               exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
           }
           if (clock_getcpuclockid(atoi(argv[1]), &clockid) != 0) {
               perror("clock_getcpuclockid");
               exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
           }
           if (clock_gettime(clockid, &ts) == -1) {
               perror("clock_gettime");
               exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
           }
           printf("CPU-time clock for PID %s is %ld.%09ld seconds\n",
                   argv[1], (long) ts.tv_sec, (long) ts.tv_nsec);
           exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
       }

SEE ALSO         top

       clock_getres(2), timer_create(2), pthread_getcpuclockid(3), time(7)

COLOPHON         top

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Linux                            2016-03-15           CLOCK_GETCPUCLOCKID(3)

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