bug#49190: uptime returns an incorrect (18801 days) number of days on OsX

[Manson Thomas]

Hi Paul,

Can you provide some dtrace command you want me to run ?

I've got dtrace on my machine, but I don't know how to use it.

Cordialement,
Thomas Manson.

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 6:47 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> On 6/23/21 8:39 AM, Manson Thomas wrote:
>
> >   $  /tmp/coreutils/bin/uptime
> >   17:21:21  up 18801 days 14:37,  3 users,  load average: 2.37, 2.68, 2.67
> >
> > The native uptime command from OSx seems to work :
> >   $  /usr/bin/uptime
> > 17:28  up 37 days,  7:43, 3 users, load averages: 2.71 2.44 2.50
>
> Thanks for reporting the problem. Can you use dtrace (or equivalent) to
> see what files /usr/bin/uptime is consulting, compared to the files that
> Coreutils uptime is consulting?