pkg/system/proc.go

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package system
import (
"io/ioutil"
"path/filepath"
"strconv"
"strings"
)
// look in /proc to find the process start time so that we can verify
// that this pid has started after ourself
func GetProcessStartTime(pid int) (string, error) {
data, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filepath.Join("/proc", strconv.Itoa(pid), "stat"))
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
parts := strings.Split(string(data), " ")
// the starttime is located at pos 22
// from the man page
//
// starttime %llu (was %lu before Linux 2.6)
// (22) The time the process started after system boot. In kernels before Linux 2.6, this
// value was expressed in jiffies. Since Linux 2.6, the value is expressed in clock ticks
// (divide by sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK)).
return parts[22-1], nil // starts at 1
}