1Jan 70 -- FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE + Current

[Dag-Erling Smorgrav]

Tim Kientzle <kientzle at acm.org> writes:
> This has been discussed on this list several
> times:  those processes are all started
> before the kernel has initialized the time.
>
> Because FreeBSD has to read the disk
> before it can know whether the hardware clock
> is in UTC or local time, it's hard to really
> do much better than this.  (I suppose you
> could edit 'ps' to display such times
> as '-'; that might be less misleading.)

You guys have no imagination...

Index: kern_proc.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/kern_proc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.179
diff -u -r1.179 kern_proc.c
--- kern_proc.c 18 Apr 2003 20:17:05 -0000      1.179
+++ kern_proc.c 24 Apr 2003 01:01:37 -0000
@@ -673,6 +673,8 @@
        }
        if ((p->p_sflag & PS_INMEM) && p->p_stats) {
                kp->ki_start = p->p_stats->p_start;
+               if (kp->ki_start == 0)
+                       kp->ki_start = boottime;
                kp->ki_rusage = p->p_stats->p_ru;
                kp->ki_childtime.tv_sec = p->p_stats->p_cru.ru_utime.tv_sec +
                    p->p_stats->p_cru.ru_stime.tv_sec;

Took me all of thirty seconds.

DES
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