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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:15085 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:2573 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.hk.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!oli1!paulz From: paulz@olivetti.nl (Paul van der Zwan) Subject: Re: Start date of all procs 1 Jan 1970 ( FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) Message-ID: <Cxo15I.5xy@olivetti.nl> Sender: usenet@olivetti.nl (News admin) Nntp-Posting-Host: olnl5 Organization: Olivetti Nederland B.V. References: <CxKHH0.1y8@olivetti.nl> <37j274$lm6@quagga.ru.ac.za> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 13:51:17 GMT Lines: 19 In article <37j274$lm6@quagga.ru.ac.za>, Geoff Rehmet <csgr@cs.ru.ac.za> wrote: >>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. > I just checked it. That's the cause. Paul -- Paul van der Zwan paulz@olivetti.nl Olivetti Nederland B.V. paulzn@olivetti.nl (NeXT-mail)