From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T00:03:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Retrieving PID running time

On 12/8/05, Philip Rhoades <phil@pricom.com.au> wrote:
> People,
>
> I have found how to get PIDs etc but how can I find the running time of
> a particular PID without messing around with a system call to ps etc

That information should be in /proc/<pid>/stat.  Look at the man page
for proc for more details.