Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: boot time, process start time, and NOW time | From | john stultz <> | Date | Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:49:08 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 17:37, George Anzinger wrote: > john stultz wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 16:08, Tim Schmielau wrote: > >>Simple fix: revert the patch below. > >>Complicated fix: correct process start times in fork.c (no patch provided, > >>too complicated for me to do). > > > > Hmm. While that patch fixed the uptime proc entry, I thought the issue > > was with process start times. I'm looking at fixing the start_time > > assignment in proc_pid_stat(). My suspicion is that we need to use ACTHZ > > in jiffies64_to_clock_t(). > > I really don't see how the start_time that proc_pid_stat() is producing could be > anything but a constant. The complaint is that it moves, not that it is > incorrect, right?
My impression was that it was both.
Regardless, your point stands, it would just be a constant. Good catch. I'll have to think about this some more.
Let me look at procps to see how exactly it comes up w/ STIME.
thanks -john
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