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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