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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:15071 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:2571 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!quagga.ru.ac.za!Braae!g89r4222 From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Start date of all procs 1 Jan 1970 ( FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) Date: 13 Oct 1994 10:29:56 GMT Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services Lines: 30 Message-ID: <37j274$lm6@quagga.ru.ac.za> References: <CxKHH0.1y8@olivetti.nl> Reply-To: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za NNTP-Posting-Host: braae.ru.ac.za X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 (NOV) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <CxKHH0.1y8@olivetti.nl> paulz@olivetti.nl (Paul van der Zwan) writes: >On a 386 box I'm running all procs always have a 1 Jan 1970 start date, >same for the times in /proc. >It looks like the time struct in the kernel is not being updated. >Can someone point me the location in the sources where that should >be done?? >Or even better can some tell me the cause of this behaviour ?? A common cause of this is using a kernel with the GPL math emulator compiled in. A lot of programs which access kernel data structures relating to processes need to be recompiled in that case. Geoff. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQBVAgUBLp0MCcmtR07KMR7ZAQEitAH/Wbaj9k/Oht09OHVyl2WS5iDMdgS67XaF Tkv/Zh6Dkr+tN0kdM6wfvw3mGsNOWRCLZY89gV5SVrTUxFANAJ1rIw== =ynd1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Geoff Rehmet, Computer Science Department, Rhodes University, South Africa FreeBSD core team: csgr@freebsd.org | ____ _ o /\ csgr@cs.ru.ac.za, geoff@neptune.ru.ac.za |___ _-\_<, / /\/\ finger rehmet@cs.ru.ac.za for PGP public key | (*)/'(*) /\/ / \ \