using time-1.7 to monitor memory?

[Marty Leisner]

I liked the fact that gnu time on sunos could report useful
memory statistics - but, at last, no more!!

Seems linux and solaris don't return much information in the getrusage
fields...

This information is in the proc file system, is there a way to get
the information?  Any extensions onto gnu time?

Does the /proc entries contain information about zombies?
I suppose if necessary, it could ptrace to stop the process when it is
about to exit, looking at the proc filesystem before exiting.

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