Incorrect process start time

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 28.04.2005 schrieb hulala @ usa.com um 19:41:

> #uname -a
> Linux 2.6.5-1.358smp #1 SMP Sat May 8 09:25:36 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Your kernel has security issues. Update please!

> # cat /etc/redhat-release 
> Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
> 
> # ps x -o lstart -o " *%c" --cols=256 | grep "grep" | cut -d "*" -f1
> Tue Apr 26 16:47:36 2005 
> 
> # date
> Tue Apr 26 16:42:59 EDT 2005
> 
> --------
> 
> You can see above, that process start time is about 5 minutes in future. System time is synchronized
> by sntp, however ps shows incorrect process start times.
> 
> Day by day is a difference bigger and bigger.

Can't confirm that, too running still FC2, but current kernel (rpm
rebuild of the FC3 kernel):

adalloz $ ps x -o lstart -o " *%c" --cols=256 | grep "grep" | cut -d "*"
-f1
Thu Apr 28 20:34:36 2005
 
[Do Apr 28 20:34:36] [adalloz at serendipity] <pts/21> /home/adalloz
 
adalloz $

My prompt shows the current time. So you see, when the "ps" command is
done the next prompt shows the current time which is identical to the ps
soutput.

Alexander


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