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Return the current process user CPU time in nanoseconds.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bsls_timeutil.h>`

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== Description

Return the instantaneous values of a platform‐dependent timer for the current process user time in absolute nanoseconds referenced to an arbitrary but fixed origin. If the system call fails return ‐1. Note that this method is thread‐safe only if `initialize` has been called before.

== Return Value

process user CPU time in nanoseconds, or ‐1 on failure


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