> "ps" will report processes started before the jiffies wrap
> as being started in the future, but this won't do any harm.
Sure it does harm. You might kill the wrong process,
like so:
pgrep -n foo # kill the newest foo
The CPU usage stats in "top" will also be horribly messed up.
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