Re: Users have no way to find out when a process started

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 07:58:06AM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> OK thanks everybody. 

Hey Dan,

> Regarding
> $ uname -a

> Linux ps11007 3.1.9-vs2.3.2.5vs2.3.2.5+ #3 SMP Wed Feb 12 13:51:29 PST 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

We didn't do a working patch for 3.1.x, the first one for
the 3.x series was for 3.2 and it was somewhat buggy.

> As in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842879#85
> I now tell the procps maintainer that if he always read /proc/uptime
> instead of /proc/stat, the ps command would always report the correct
> values on any system, virtualized or not.

The procps folks are definitely not to blame here, they
are not doing anything wrong. 

The kernel should be updated to a more recent version,
last but not least because of the many exploits found
recently.

Best,
Herbert