Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH procfs] Add process age | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:47:45 +0200 |
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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" ?
-Andi
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