Re: Timestamp record? UPTIME

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:
> But what I truly want is the uptime.
> I haven't found an easy way to do that yet...

That depends what you mean by uptime - it would be trivial to create a 
CALC record that keeps a seconds counter if you want to measure your 
uptime in seconds (and don't mind slight inaccuracies since your 1 
second scan task might not tick at exactly once a second).

If those inaccuracies bother you or you need the result in a textual 
format then a subroutine record could do the necessary calculation and 
string conversion -- copy any string result to the DESC field and call 
db_post_event(precord, &precord->desc, DBE_VALUE) to make sure the 
monitor event gets posted.  I don't know whether this counts as "easy" 
though...

- Andrew
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