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From: Athanasius <Athanasius@gurus.tf>
To: Jim <jimd@starshine.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Jiffies from userspace
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:21:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020202152134.GB19785@gurus.tf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020201123321.A799@mars.starshine.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020201123321.A799@mars.starshine.org>

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On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:33:21PM -0800, Jim wrote:
>  reasonable way to get an estimate of the "current" value of the 
>  kernel's jiffies:
> 
>  	set -- `cat /proc/self/stat`; echo ${22}
> 
>  The cat will start a new process, field 22? of its "stat" node 
>  under proc should have the jiffies value at the time the process
>  was started; so the echo command execute "shortly" thereafter.
> 
>  But am I right about the struct of stat:  Is that really in ${22}?

   Assuming so try:

	awk '{print $22}' /proc/self/stat

for a 'single process' version.

-Ath
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-02 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-01 20:33 Jiffies from userspace Jim
2002-02-01 20:58 ` Eli Carter
2002-02-01 21:01 ` Mark Zealey
2002-02-02 15:21 ` Athanasius [this message]

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