> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:20:23AM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote:
> > Seems like a lot of trouble just to maintain "bragging rights" about
> > uptime, only to have a "hobbled" system that is not really up to date.
> > That's not quite "up" IMHO.
> [...]
>
> For some people these things are important. I have no problem with
> shutting down my machine every night. (Of course it's because it's in
> my (small) bedroom, and I want to get some sleep. :> )
Here's a fix for the "problem" for those people. Are we done kicking this yet?
--- kern_clock.c Fri Oct 18 21:19:06 2002
+++ /tmp/kern_clock.c Sat Jan 4 15:05:53 2003
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
time_t time_second;
struct timeval boottime;
-SYSCTL_STRUCT(_kern, KERN_BOOTTIME, boottime, CTLFLAG_RD,
+SYSCTL_STRUCT(_kern, KERN_BOOTTIME, boottime, CTLFLAG_RW,
&boottime, timeval, "System boottime");
/*
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