kardel@NetBSD.org (Frank Kardel) writes:

>Sensible time output seem state dependent. Runnanble or Stopped
>processes show time value that match my expectations more.

The p_stat of a sleeping process is seen as SDYING (3) because
the kvm interface overwrites the value with l_stat == LSSLEEP (3).

A 'dying' process has no valid cputime, thus ps prints 0.

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