Re: 2.4.x kernel uptime counter problem

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

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@tmr.com>
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