Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH procfs] Add process age | From | Davidlohr Bueso <> | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:57:48 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 09:47 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Davidlohr Bueso <dave.bueso@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 21:35 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 01:47:51PM -0400, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > >> > This patch exports a process's age, in seconds, adding a /proc/#/age file. > >> > >> What for? > > > > I have not found any straight way to get the run time of a processes, > > without having to interpret the start_time entry in /proc/#/stat and > > manually subtract the uptime from it. > > That sounds like something an user space program should simply do. > Perhaps you can add it as a new optional "-o" field in "ps" ? > True, but there are also many other no-so-useful files under /proc that can also be replaced by userspace apps.
Davidlohr
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