Command: ptimes

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Name:
 ptimes - returns real, user, and system time
Synopsis:
  ptimes -> [rtimes utimes stimes cutimes cstimes] 
Description:
 
 Calls the POSIX times() function to obtain real, user,
 and system time in seconds, as well as user and system times
 counts for all child processes.  Real time has arbitrary origin,
 i.e., only differences are meaningful.

 Note: results for user and system time may not be reliable if more
 than one thread is used.

Author:
 Hans Ekkehard Plesser
FirstVersion:
 2003-07-29
References:
 man 2 times
SeeAlso:realtime usertime systemtime tic toc pclockspersec pclocks
Source:
 /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/nest-2.4.1/lib/sli/sli-init.sli

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