Re: getloadavg and source for /usr/bin/uptime

[David Jenkins]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:14:18 -0600, Tillman Hodgson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Probably because /usr/bin/uptime is a hard link to the /usr/bin/w
> binary. I think you want the code from /usr/src/usr.bin/w/w.c.

D'oh.

That's exactly what I'm after.

Thanks,
David
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Re: getloadavg and source for /usr/bin/uptime

[Tillman Hodgson]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:09:46PM +0100, David Jenkins wrote:
> NB - I don't want to pipe uptime into awk or use a perl script etc,
> I'd much prefer it to be C based.

If you *did* want to do it that way, something like

  uptime | sed -e 's/.*: \([0-9.]*\).*/\1/'

is handy.

> If any knows where it's hiding (or why it's not there) I'd be very
> grateful if you could share it with me.

Probably because /usr/bin/uptime is a hard link to the /usr/bin/w
binary. I think you want the code from /usr/src/usr.bin/w/w.c.

-T


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