Re: boot time, process start time, and NOW time

[john stultz]

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 17:37, George Anzinger wrote:
> john stultz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 16:08, Tim Schmielau wrote:
> >>Simple fix: revert the patch below.
> >>Complicated fix: correct process start times in fork.c (no patch provided, 
> >>too complicated for me to do).
> > 
> > Hmm. While that patch fixed the uptime proc entry, I thought the issue
> > was with process start times. I'm looking at fixing the start_time
> > assignment in proc_pid_stat(). My suspicion is that we need to use ACTHZ
> > in jiffies64_to_clock_t().
> 
> I really don't see how the start_time that proc_pid_stat() is producing could be 
> anything but a constant.  The complaint is that it moves, not that it is 
> incorrect, right?

My impression was that it was both. 

Regardless, your point stands, it would just be a constant. Good catch.
I'll have to think about this some more. 

Let me look at procps to see how exactly it comes up w/ STIME. 

thanks
-john


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