Re: 2.4.x kernel uptime counter problem

[Bill Davidsen]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> > > Or use some dedicated programs, IIRC there is a "uprecords" program
> > > (http://podgorny.cz/moin/Uptimed). Does require no reboot and should work
> > > right away.
> > >      
> > I never understood uptime anyway, the boot time, to the second, is available in
> > /proc/stat (btime), and it isn't that hard to turn it into whatever format you
> > find human readable. I have a perl script which presents uptime as fractional
> > days, days, hours, min, sec, and/or boot time. Took me about two minutes to
> > write.
> >    
>
> uptime or uptimed/uprecords? (That's two different things.)
> The "uptime" commands is the same as "w | head -n1" (which reads 
> /proc/uptime) and therefore suffers from jiffies wrap.

I understand why it has this limitation, the question is why it was 
written to have it, when correct function is easily possible. I 
understand extra effort to get it right, but not to get it wrong...

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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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