diff --git a/lib/chibi/time.sld b/lib/chibi/time.sld
index 7ee2ee3e..1d64c6e3 100644
--- a/lib/chibi/time.sld
+++ b/lib/chibi/time.sld
@@ -7,5 +7,11 @@
           time-second time-minute time-hour time-day time-month time-year
           time-day-of-week time-day-of-year time-dst?
           tm? timeval? timezone?)
+  (cond-expand
+   ((or bsd linux)
+    (export rusage? resource-usage-time resource-usage-system-time
+            resource-usage-max-rss resource-usage/self
+            resource-usage/children get-resource-usage))
+   (else))
   (import (chibi))
   (include-shared "time"))
diff --git a/lib/chibi/time.stub b/lib/chibi/time.stub
index f53e182b..6aa23a33 100644
--- a/lib/chibi/time.stub
+++ b/lib/chibi/time.stub
@@ -76,3 +76,24 @@
 (define-c non-null-string (time->string "asctime_r")
   (tm (result (array char 64))))
 
+(cond-expand
+ ((or bsd linux)
+  (define-c-struct rusage
+    predicate: rusage?
+    ((struct timeval) ru_utime  resource-usage-time)
+    ((struct timeval) ru_stime  resource-usage-system-time)
+    (long             ru_maxrss resource-usage-max-rss))
+
+;;> Accessors for the \scheme{rusage} struct.
+;;/
+
+  (define-c-const int (resource-usage/self RUSAGE_SELF))
+  (define-c-const int (resource-usage/children RUSAGE_CHILDREN))
+
+;;> Returns a struct describing the resources used by the current
+;;> process.
+
+  (define-c errno (get-resource-usage "getrusage")
+    ((default RUSAGE_SELF int) (result rusage))))
+ (else
+  ))