Re: Linux Process Start Time

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$ perl -le'print "".localtime($^T)'
Mon Jul 27 12:16:06 2009

$ perl -le'print "".localtime($^T)'
Mon Jul 27 12:16:07 2009

$ perl -le'print "".localtime($^T)'
Mon Jul 27 12:16:08 2009

$ perl -le'print "".localtime($^T)'
Mon Jul 27 12:16:09 2009
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Update: Oops! Nevermind. You want to know how long *another* process has been running.

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Re^2: Linux Process Start Time by alexm (Chaplain) on Jul 27, 2009 at 22:33 UTC
In this case, the trick would work if the rsync command was run from a Perl script. Moreover, alarm could also be used to set a timeout (this has saved my day several times).	[reply]