I noticed that the seconds returned by the getutxent() call are not the
same as what's listed as the btime in /proc/stat on the two Linux
systems I've tested on.  The getutxent call always returns a higher
value.

At home, I thought for sure that it was adding the jiffies from the
khubd process (since it was the only one that had a number of jiffies,
converted to seconds, equal to the difference I was detecting).  At
work, however, that doesn't seem to be the case, as I can't find a
process that has a jiffy count that would account exactly for the
difference (and yes, the CLK_TCK rate is the same on both machines -
100).

I was only able to find one other post that mentions a bug in getutxent
(and getutent) on Linux, but no real details.  Does anyone have any more
details on this?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Daniel Berger

PS -  A short C program provided below for your convenience

/*****************************
 * Get the boot time (btime)
 *****************************/
#include <utmpx.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#ifndef CLK_TCK
#define CLK_TCK sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK)
#endif

int main()
{
   struct utmpx *u;
   long seconds;

   while((u = getutxent()))

      if(u->ut_type == BOOT_TIME)
      {
         seconds = u->ut_tv.tv_sec;
         printf("Clock tick: %li\n", CLK_TCK);
         printf("Boot seconds: %li\n",seconds);
         break;
      }
   }
   return 0;

/*
My results:
frank-/home/djberge/Programming/C-1683>./btime
Clock tick: 100
Boot seconds: 1019658207
frank-/home/djberge/Programming/C-1684>cat /proc/stat | grep btime
btime 1019658072
frank-/home/djberge/Programming/C-1685>
*/

Hi,

getutxent()? What sort of {*filter*}is this? Have you tried getrusage()?

Bye.

Am I supposed to be looking at ru_utime?  It returns 0 - so does
ru_stime.  Care to provide  an example of how to get the btime using
getrusage()?  Or would you rather just pop off again?

Dan