Uptime again

[Richard B. Johnson]

I just accidentally deleted all the messages about uptime including
the code sent to me to test to see if it was a user-mode problem.

It seems to be a user-mode problem:

Script started on Fri Jan 25 16:38:52 2002
# cat >xxx.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/sysinfo.h>

struct sysinfo info;
#define SECS_MIN 60
#define SECS_HR (SECS_MIN * 60)
#define SECS_DAY (SECS_HR * 24)

int main(void) {

        long uptime;
        long days, hrs, min, sec;

        sysinfo(&info);
        printf("uptime: %ld sec\n", info.uptime);

        uptime  = info.uptime;
        days    = info.uptime / SECS_DAY;
        uptime -= (days * SECS_DAY);
        hrs     = uptime / SECS_HR;
        uptime -= (hrs * SECS_HR);
        min     = uptime / SECS_MIN;
        sec     = uptime - (min * SECS_MIN);
        printf("uptime %ldd %02ld:%02ld:%02ld\n", days, hrs, min, sec);
        return(0);
}
^Z

# gcc -o xxx xxx.c
# ./xxx
uptime: 11153047 sec
uptime 129d 02:04:07
# ./xxx
uptime: 11153055 sec
uptime 129d 02:04:15
# exit
Script done on Fri Jan 25 16:39:27 2002

Hand-made 'uptime' shows more than 128 days.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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