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8.15 resource -- Resource usage information

Availability: Unix.

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:

exception error

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

• 8.15.1 Resource Limits
• 8.15.2 Resource Usage

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Release 2.2.3, documentation updated on 30 May 2003.