Messages in this thread | | | From | "Sergey V." <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH procfs] Add process age | Date | Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:16:30 +0400 |
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On Friday 23 of July 2010 22:47:10 Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > 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.
Agree. I thing this feature can be useful in some cases.
I have not found better than run something like this:
echo `cat /proc/uptime | awk '{print $1}'` - \ `cat /proc/$PID/stat | awk '{print $22}'`/100 | bc
> This small file simply aids the users to obtain the information easier > and quicker. Another alternative would be to add an entry > in /proc/#/status. > > Davidlohr
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