> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:56:49AM +0100, Volker Zell wrote: > >Hi > > > >There are two versions of uptime in the cygwin distro. > > > >The one from sh-utils-2.0-3 seems to be none functional. > > > >05:23 PM [513]> uptime > >uptime: couldn't get boot time: Bad file descriptor > > > >The one in procps-010801-2 works for me. > > Very strange. I specifically removed uptime.exe in my postinstall process > but it was definitely there. When I reran the build it disappeared. > > I've uploaded a new version of sh-utils based on the port available > at alpha.gnu.org. It removes uptime.exe but that means that uptime.exe > will be completely gone from your system after updating to this version > of sh-utils. > > I wonder if Chris January would mind either making a new release of > procps or bumping up the release number on the current one? That would > probably just require renaming the bin tarball and repackaging the source > tarball. > > Once that number is bumped, people will get uptime automatically.
The original binary (from sh-utils-2.0.15-1) failed on my machine, but when I built uptime myself it used the /proc/uptime file and worked fine. This would seem to be a build issue in the sh-utils package. Has it been built against a recent version of Cygwin lately? I'm not convinced bumping the procps version number is the right solution, I think it would be better to rebuild sh-utils. Chris
