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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: boot time, process start time, and NOW time
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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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