To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, kay.sievers@vrfy.org,
        Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] add StartTimeMonotomic, StartTimeBootTime to per  pid in   /proc
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:42:40 -0800
From: Dan Ballard <dan@mindstab.net>
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>> The process starttime is useful for a variety of things, like figuring
>> out creation ordering of processes. Or it is useful to detect PID
>> reuses in a somewhat reliable way.
> 
> OK, maybe. Changelog should have said so.
> 
> Yeah, Dan was also too lazy to explain the need, and had like 3 typoes
> in the inadequate changelog he had.
> 
> Does not inspire confidence.
> 
> Now please all untwist your panties and try and submit a proper patch.

Resubmitted with more explanation (and less typos). If you feel that 
having
both CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME is really a sticking point I'd 
be
ok to remove one as long as the other made it through, as one is much 
better
than none.
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