+int get_starttime_of_pid(pid_t pid, unsigned long long *st) {
+ int r;
+ FILE *f;
+ char fn[PATH_MAX], line[LINE_MAX], *p;
+
+ assert(pid > 0);
+ assert(st);
+
+ assert_se(snprintf(fn, sizeof(fn)-1, "/proc/%lu/stat", (unsigned long) pid) < (int) (sizeof(fn)-1));
+ char_array_0(fn);
+
+ if (!(f = fopen(fn, "r")))
+ return -errno;
+
+ if (!(fgets(line, sizeof(line), f))) {
+ r = -errno;
+ fclose(f);
+ return r;
+ }
+
+ fclose(f);
+
+ /* Let's skip the pid and comm fields. The latter is enclosed
+ * in () but does not escape any () in its value, so let's
+ * skip over it manually */
+
+ if (!(p = strrchr(line, ')')))
+ return -EIO;
+
+ p++;
+
+ if (sscanf(p, " "
+ "%*c " /* state */
+ "%*d " /* ppid */
+ "%*d " /* pgrp */
+ "%*d " /* session */
+ "%*d " /* tty_nr */
+ "%*d " /* tpgid */
+ "%*u " /* flags */
+ "%*u " /* minflt */
+ "%*u " /* cminflt */
+ "%*u " /* majflt */
+ "%*u " /* cmajflt */
+ "%*u " /* utime */
+ "%*u " /* stime */
+ "%*d " /* cutime */
+ "%*d " /* cstime */
+ "%*d " /* priority */
+ "%*d " /* nice */
+ "%*d " /* num_threads */
+ "%*d " /* itrealvalue */
+ "%llu " /* starttime */,
+ st) != 1)
+ return -EIO;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+