Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide

# Programming Ruby ### The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide
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class Struct::Tms |
Parent: | Struct
Version: | 1.6

### Index:

This structure is returned by `Time.times` . It holds information on process times on those platforms that support it. Not all values are valid on all platforms.

This structure contains the following instance variables and the corresponding accessors:

`utime` | Amount of User CPU time, in seconds
`stime` | Amount of System CPU time, in seconds
`cutime` | Completed child processes' User CPU time, in seconds (always 0 on Windows NT)
`cstime` | Completed child processes' System CPU time, in seconds (always 0 on Windows NT)

See also `Struct` on page 380 and `Time.times` on page 393.

`t = Time.times`
`[ t.utime, t.stime]` | » | `[0.06, 0.0]`
`[ t.cutime, t.cstime ]` | » | `[0.0, 0.0]`

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