Pádraig Brady wrote: > arm64, macOS 12.7, 1 gnulib test fail: > FAIL: test-readutmp > Here are the read_utmp results. > Flags: B = Boot, U = User Process > Termi‐ > Flags > Time (GMT) User Device PID nation Exit > B U Host > ------------------- ------------------ ----------- ---------- ------ ---- > - - ---- > 1970-01-01 00:00:16 1 0 0 > X > 2024-12-21 13:29:52 _mbsetupuser console 129 0 0 > X > test-readutmp.c:146: assertion 'first >= now - 157680000' failed
When read_utmp returns a boot time 16 seconds after the Epoch, that is indeed incorrect. The way gnulib/lib/boot-time-aux.h uses to get the boot time on macOS is via the CTL_KERN KERN_BOOTTIME sysctl. It's the system's authoritative info, not some heuristics. I don't see this test failure in the macOS 13, 14, 15 machines on GitHub. Therefore it looks like a quirk in macOS 12 that has long been fixed. Bruno
