diff -up yum-utils-1.1.31/needs-restarting.py.old yum-utils-1.1.31/needs-restarting.py
--- yum-utils-1.1.31/needs-restarting.py.old	2014-09-04 14:19:27.000000000 +0200
+++ yum-utils-1.1.31/needs-restarting.py	2014-09-04 14:29:47.825438668 +0200
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ import yum.misc
 import glob
 import stat
 from optparse import OptionParser
+sys.path.insert(0,'/usr/share/yum-cli')
+import utils
 
 def parseargs(args):
     usage = """
@@ -77,7 +79,8 @@ def get_open_files(pid):
     files = []
     smaps = '/proc/%s/smaps' % pid
     try:
-        maps = open(smaps, 'r').readlines()
+        with open(smaps, 'r') as maps_f:
+            maps = maps_f.readlines()
     except (IOError, OSError), e:
         print "Could not open %s" % smaps
         return files
@@ -88,7 +91,7 @@ def get_open_files(pid):
             continue
         line = line.replace('\n', '')
         filename = line[slash:]
-        #filename = filename.replace('(deleted)', '') #only mildly retarded
+        filename = filename.split(';')[0]
         filename = filename.strip()
         if filename not in files:
             files.append(filename)
@@ -109,10 +112,11 @@ def main(args):
     
     needing_restart = set()
 
+    boot_time = utils.get_boot_time()
     for pid in return_running_pids(uid=myuid):
         try:
-            pid_start = os.stat('/proc/' + pid)[stat.ST_CTIME]
-        except OSError, e:
+            pid_start = utils.get_process_time(int(pid), boot_time)['start_time']
+        except (OSError, IOError), e:
             continue
         found_match = False
         for fn in get_open_files(pid):
@@ -158,7 +162,7 @@ def main(args):
     for pid in needing_restart:
         try:
             cmdline = open('/proc/' +pid+ '/cmdline', 'r').read()
-        except OSError, e:
+        except (OSError, IOError), e:
             print "Couldn't access process information for %s: %s" % (pid, str(e))
             continue
         # proc cmdline is null-delimited so clean that up