Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 06:28:44PM +0000, Padraig Brady wrote:
>>>This just gives the boot time (in seconds since 1970) as far
>>as I can tell. Hence not what I want. I want the actual number
>>of seconds elapsed since boot, and I can't use BOOT_TIME-time(0)
>>as if the system date changes, this will be inaccurate.
>>>>> oh yeah, sorry, the wtmp also keeps a record of clock skews,
> flaged as OLD_TIME and NEW_TIME
>> man wtmp for more :o)
Feck that. It would be easier to write a simple kernel module
to export /proc/seconds_since_boot
Padraig.
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