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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Start date of all procs 1 Jan 1970 ( FreeBSD 1.1.5.1)
Date: 13 Oct 1994 10:29:56 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
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In <CxKHH0.1y8@olivetti.nl> paulz@olivetti.nl (Paul van der Zwan) writes:


>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.

Geoff.

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