Getting memory usage of a child process

[Hackker Wong]

Hi,

In a C program running in Unix, how does the parent know the amount of
memory used of its child?

I am using fork() and then execlp() to execute a program. And I need to
calculate the maximum memory used of that program.

Thank you very much!

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[Lawrence Kirby]

In article <3BD121A6...@cse.cuhk.edu.hk>
wyw...@cse.cuhk.edu.hk "Hackker Wong" writes:

>Hi,
>
>In a C program running in Unix, how does the parent know the amount of
>memory used of its child?

As far as the C language is concerned there is no way to get such
information. A good place to discuss Unix system features is
comp.unix.programmer.

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