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From: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
To: Taras Glek <tglek@mozilla.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Measuring startup-time from userspace
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On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:40:48 -0800, Taras Glek <tglek@mozilla.com> wrote:
> The question is, there way for a process to measure time-since-startup 
> without horrible hacks like spawning a new processes?
> 
Would you consider an LD_PRELOAD library to fall into the "hack"
category? I'm not sure when .init section is executed, but it might be
substantially earlier than when _start() is called.

- Ben