Re: Problem with boot-time on Cygwin

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Ken,

> $ ls -l /proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys/
> ls: cannot open directory '/proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys/': Not a directory
> 
> $ ls -ld /proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys/
> drwxr-x--- 17664 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 1600-12-31 19:11 
> /proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys//
> 
> Notice that the file is reported as a directory when 'ls -ld' is used, 
> and it has a timestamp way in the past.

This seems to be a fairly recent change in Cygwin.

> I wonder if 
> get_boot_time should simply bail out on Cygwin and always give a boot 
> time of 0.  Or do you have a better idea?

I've forwarded the question to the cygwin mailing list [1].
Let's see what they say.

Bruno

[1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-May/255931.html