Davidlohr Bueso <dave.bueso@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html