Re: 2.6.1: process start times by procps

From: Petri Kaukasoina
Date: Thu Jan 29 2004 - 15:35:13 EST


On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:48:49AM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 06:38, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
> > Yes, on linux-2.2.24 I can see that /proc/uptime is just the jiffies and
> > btime is current time - jiffies. But in linux-2.6.1 /proc/uptime is now
> > do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(), whatever that means, and /proc/uptime
> > gives a correct value. But btime is still gettimeofday-jiffies and it does
> > not stay constant. My patch changed btime to be
> > gettimeofday-do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime() and after that it stays
> > constant.
>
> Does George Anzinger's patch work as well?

I must have missed that... Any references?

-Petri
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