From: Philip Rhoades <phil@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T00:14:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Retrieving PID running time

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 00:03 +0900, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but what I want (in Ruby) is something like:

ptime = Process.pid.time

How can I do that?

Thanks,

Phil.
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