Re: [PATCH 1/1] v2 add StartTimeMonotomic, StartTimeBootTime to perpid in /proc

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Dan Ballard wrote:

> starttime in /proc/$PID/stat is inaccurate by "clock tick" granularity.
> The process starttime is useful for a variety of things, like figuring
> out creation ordering of processes and it is useful to detect PID
> reuses in a somewhat reliable way.
> 
> The kernel internally stores finer granularity values and this patch
> exports them in the easily usable location /prod/$PID/status
> as StartTimeMonotonic and StartTimeBootTime.

If you want proper ordered and granular information use tracing.

Thanks,

	tglx


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