Re: Container Uptime Discussion

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On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 at 05:37, Jim Warner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Don't do anything fancy because what you've got now works just fine
> under both docker and lxc (besides, the above is backwards).  Using the
> C standard clock_gettime equalized things and was the perfect solution.
>
Cool, I'll leave that alone.


> > Perhaps boot_time in the library should use clock_gettime()?
>
> The attached patch does just that.  Thanks for paving the way.
>
That's commited.


> I ran it under the three above containers.  It always shows the host
> "uptime".  Do you plan to abandon all use of /proc/uptime?
>
I think for when something asks for uptime we use /proc/uptime. When we are
comparing things against the system boot time we use clock_gettime().
I suspect the library does both those things now.

 - Craig

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