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Id: 4373
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  Wed Nov 12 17:34:23 2003 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: uptime is linux-only
This module is linux-only for reporting uptime. As stated in the documentation, the uptime function returns 0 on an "error." This causes the function to always return 0 on non-linux operating systems (such as my FreeBSD 4.9 test platform) because uptime is gathered via the following snippet from the module: use constant UPTIME => "/proc/uptime"; open(FILE, UPTIME) || return 0; "/proc/uptime" exists only on linux systems. This should be fixed with a more portable uptime routine or marked in some fashion as non-functional on non-linux systems.
  Tue Nov 18 06:40:05 2003 BARABAS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
[guest - Wed Nov 12 17:34:23 2003]: Show quoted text
> "/proc/uptime" exists only on linux systems. >
It works on all systems which has procfs. I know OpenBSD has it, not sure about FreeBSD. Show quoted text
> This should be fixed with a more portable uptime routine or marked
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> some fashion as non-functional on non-linux systems.
That's indeed true, I'll fix it.