clock_getcpuclockid(3)                                Library Functions Manual                               clock_getcpuclockid(3)

NAME
       clock_getcpuclockid - obtain ID of a process CPU-time clock

LIBRARY
       Standard C library (libc, -lc), since glibc 2.17

       Before glibc 2.17, Real-time library (librt, -lrt)

SYNOPSIS
       #include <time.h>

       int clock_getcpuclockid(pid_t pid, clockid_t *clockid);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       clock_getcpuclockid():
           _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L

DESCRIPTION
       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 clockid.  If pid is zero, then the clock ID of the CPU-time clock of the calling process is re‐
       turned.

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

ERRORS
       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
       The clock_getcpuclockid() function is available since glibc 2.2.

ATTRIBUTES
       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

       ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │Interface                                                                                        │ Attribute     │ Value   │
       ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │clock_getcpuclockid()                                                                            │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

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

NOTES
       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.

EXAMPLES
       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 <stdint.h>
       #include <stdio.h>
       #include <stdlib.h>
       #include <time.h>
       #include <unistd.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 %jd.%09ld seconds\n",
                  argv[1], (intmax_t) ts.tv_sec, ts.tv_nsec);
           exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
       }

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

Linux man-pages 6.03                                         2022-12-15                                      clock_getcpuclockid(3)