i!
Not about this directly, but an alternative. If you need the length of
finished calls, work with the system. Use a specific call to the date command,
so it's easy to evaluate the time info or some other tool to give you an
absolute of time. Then at the end of the call use another system call to that
program and subtract the two values. You could use bc for this. It even works
with decimal numbers. One or two shell-scripts will do this trick.
HTH.
Kindest regards
Julien
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