UNIX Programming. struct timeval how to print it (C-programming)

Question

I am trying to print a value of type timeval. Actually I am able to print it, but I get the following warning:

Multiple markers at this line

• format ‘%l

Answer 1

In the GNU C Library, struct timeval:

is declared in sys/time.h and has the following members:

long int tv_sec

This represents the number of whole seconds of elapsed time.

long int tv_usec

This is the rest of the elapsed time (a fraction of a second), represented as the number of microseconds. It is always less than one million.

So you will need to do

printf("%ld.%06ld\n", usage.ru_stime.tv_sec, usage.ru_stime.tv_usec);

to get a "nicely formatted" timestamp like 1.000123.