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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:

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