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In article <3956@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU> rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden) writes:

   I am writing a program for which I need exact (as much as is possible)
   timings of the run time.  Using the emx compiler and the following code:
 
           [ Code fragment omitted...]

   This gives the real time between the two calles to clock().  What I need is
   the actual CPU time.  Is there anyway to get this??



Well, so I am not the only one who would like this :-) I do not understand
why there is no (documented) system call to return this information. It is 
clear from the discussion in _The Design of OS/2_ (pages 122 & 130),
that the kernel tracks processor usage time at least on a per thread basis.
I suspect, also, that the undocumented system call DosQProcStatus() will
return this information, but I do not know which field is the right one.
[At least, I infer this much from the structure declarations in 
the procstat.h header file included with the "killem" and "procs"
utilities I retrieved from hobbes... A number of the fields therein
are marked "don't know".]

Since we now have several IBM folks kind enough to field questions in
this newsgroup, would it possible for one of them to unravel this 
mystery for us?

Paul Lyon