hi Muyadi:
2010/12/10 Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com>:
> Hi...
>
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 21:56, loody <milo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Deal all:
>> I have some questions about times in #include <sys/times.h>.
>> As far as I know, times will "get process and waited-for child process
>> times".
>> so if the child is not finish or dead, this function will cause the
>> deadlock, right?
>
> From "man 2 times"
> " In Linux kernel versions before 2.6.9, if the disposition of SIGCHLD is
>       set  to SIG_IGN then the times of terminated children are automatically
>       included in the tms_cstime and tms_cutime fields, although POSIX.1-2001
>       says that this should only happen if the calling process wait()s on its
>       children.  This non-conformance is rectified in Linux 2.6.9 and  later"
>
> So, indirectly, I think the time accumulation happens when the wait()
> function returns...which is...I guess polling or regularly checking
> (select() maybe?) the signal from child.
>
thanks for ur help.
But I man nothing about times.

$ man 2 times
No manual entry for times in section 2
$

Should I update any packages?
thanks a lot,
miloody

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