On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 09:47 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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" ? > True, but there are also many other no-so-useful files under /proc that can also be replaced by userspace apps. Davidlohr -- 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
