From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: dave.bueso@gmail.com
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH procfs] Add process age
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:47:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwz6it0e.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1279910830.1851.5.camel@cowboy> (Davidlohr Bueso's message of "Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:47:10 -0400")
Davidlohr Bueso <dave.bueso@gmail.com> 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@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-26 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-23 17:47 [RFC] [PATCH procfs] Add process age Davidlohr Bueso
2010-07-23 18:35 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-07-23 18:47 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2010-07-23 23:16 ` Sergey V.
2010-07-26 7:47 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-07-26 13:57 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2010-07-26 14:48 ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-26 15:10 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2010-07-28 6:56 ` Américo Wang
2010-07-30 14:58 ` Davidlohr Bueso
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