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Resource usage information
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An interface to provide resource usage information on the current
process.  This module was written by Jeremy Hylton
<jhylton@cnri.reston.va.us>.
This manual section was written by Jeremy Hylton
<jhylton@cnri.reston.va.us>.
This module provides basic mechanisms for measuring and controlling
system resources utilized by a program.

Symbolic constants are used to specify particular system resources and
to request usage information about either the current process or its
children.

A single exception is defined for errors:

`error'
     The functions described below may raise this error if the
     underlying system call failures unexpectedly.

Resource Limits

Resource Usage