Interval Timer Functions
The release of BSD4.2 UNIX introduced interval timers. This new facility provided the programmer the capability to create
A realtime timer
A virtual timer
A system virtual (profile) timer
These timers provided three different ways to measure time. The realtime timer measures elapsed time in the same way as the alarm(3) function. The virtual timer measures CPU time used while the process executes in user mode.
The system virtual timer, however, measures the time of execution for the current process in system and user modes. The system mode time measured is the execution time spent within the kernel on behalf of the current process. This timer is intended to assist interpreters in measuring the CPU profile of an interpreted ...
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