Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: boot time, process start time, and NOW time | From | john stultz <> | Date | Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:23:44 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 17:45, Tim Schmielau wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, john stultz wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 16:00, Tim Schmielau wrote: > > > George, please excuse my lack of understanding. What again where the > > > precise reasons to have an ntp-corrected uptime? > > > > If I remember correctly, folks were complaining that boot time was > > drifting due to the same issue. > > Yes, I remember this was discussed at the same time. However, I don't see > that boot time display actually is connected to uptime. Boot time is > available in /proc/stat as seconds sice the beginning of the epoch. It's > now derived from wall_to_monotonic, thus should be reasonable constant > (and I'm not aware of recent reports that say otherwise). > > If some program thinks it has to calculate boot time from > gettimeofday() - uptime, and it drifts, so what? > It's got a better way to do that.
Hmm. Maybe I'm confusing problems. I need to re-read my mail archive. In the meantime, maybe George could remind us why exactly the patch was needed.
thanks -john
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