Re: boot time on Linux

[Po Lu]

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> On 2023-08-09 19:14, Po Lu wrote:
>> This uses the uptime counter (which also results in an SELinux denial
>> for me, but different Android distributions have SELinux policies of
>> varying strictness), which cannot establish the precise time the system
>> started
>
> Emacs doesn't need a precise boot time. All it really needs is an
> integer that uniquely identifies the current OS boot.
>
>>  since time elapses between the read from the uptime counter and
>> the read from the RTC.
>
> Emacs allows for up to one second of slop in computing the boot
> time. (In other words, it assumes that reboots are at least one second
> apart.) So if there are minor errors in computing the boot time it
> should be OK. If the errors are greater than one second, though,
> lock-file may assume that locks are stale when they're not.

OK, but the SELinux problem still stands in the way.  There's an uptime
counter in the Settings app though -- I'll try to establish how that
works.