Re: [9fans] Re: patch/list sorry/proc-mtime

["Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>]

> This has been discussed at length in #plan9

Given the things that get discussed at length in #plan9,
let's just say I don't give much weight to that argument.

> /proc/*/status but in a very inconvenient manner. Currently the mtime
> is the box boot time, which is at best useless and at worst confusing.

Actually it is the time that the kernel (specifically pc.$O or pccpu.$O etc.)
was built.  It's not useless, and it's the same as essentially every other
device file in the system.  If it were different, I would find that confusing.
Just because you're confused doesn't mean everyone is.

> Knowing when a process was started is extremely convenient,

cat >$home/bin/rc/when <<'EOF'
#!/bin/rc
for(i)
	echo $i `{date `{awk -v n'='^`{date -n} '{printf "%u", n-$6/1000}' /proc/$i/status}}
EOF

Russ