Why don't we remove /proc/uptime?
Pros:
a) on SMP systems /proc/uptime reports wrong numbers anyway so by removing
it we have one less bug to fix.
b) cpu* entries in /proc/stat file show correct numbers for the time spent
in idle task per engine so we don't really lose any information by getting
rid of /proc/uptime.
Cons:
a) uptime(1) utility will need changing to use /proc/stat instead of
/proc/uptime.
b) manpage for proc(4) will need to be updated not to refer to /proc/uptime
but it will need updating because of lots of other changes to /proc anyway
so...
regards,
Tigran
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