From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936461AbXGTR5p (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:57:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762445AbXGTR5f (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:57:35 -0400 Received: from mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.49]:20203 "EHLO mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762945AbXGTR5e convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:57:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:57:30 +0100 From: Ken Moffat To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Bill Davidsen , Linux Kernel M/L Subject: Re: [RFC] what should 'uptime' be on suspend? Message-ID: <20070720175730.GB21550@deepthought> References: <46A0210E.6010207@tmr.com> <20070720171729.GA19935@deepthought> <20070720104215.476f4cc1.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070720104215.476f4cc1.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 10:42:15AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > man uptime: > uptime - tell how long the system has been running > > I claim that the system is not running when it is suspended, > so the suspension time should not be included in uptime. > So, maybe I shouldn't have put corrected in inverted commas, because this was a real correction and my previous usage was an unintended side-effect of an error. Anyway, the current behaviour is known and I guess any attempt to change it (e.g. to what Bill was expecting) won't be well received. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce