How to check on process time?

[Donn Cave]

Quoth <phys137 at mailcity.com>:
| long time ago i used sun's call 'getresourceusage' to obtain process times
| on bsd - some other unixes had similar calls or not

You might be thinking of something like this:
   import resources
   resource.getrlimit(resource.RUSAGE_SELF)

Which is reasonably portable, but doesn't meet the requirement because
it can get usage for only the current process, or its children.

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu