The syscall that reports child CPU usage is times(2), not time(2) --- a/man2/sigaction.2 2014-04-20 04:06:16.000000000 -0500 +++ b/man2/sigaction.2 2014-04-26 15:39:35.087503556 -0500 @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ these fields do not include the times used by waited-for children (unlike .BR getrusage (2) and -.BR time (2)). +.BR times (2)). In kernels up to 2.6, and since 2.6.27, these fields report CPU time in units of .IR sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) . -- Alan Curry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html