library: procps_uptime() return value is a status
procps_uptime, previously just plain uptime() used to put the uptime (as a double) in the first argument and return uptime (as an int). It meant if you ran myuptime2 = procps_uptime(&myuptime1, NULL); You might get different results for myuptime1 and myuptime2 because they are different types. Most library calls use the return value to return the status, procps_uptime was in the middle. Until now. This function will return 0 on success. If you want (for whatever reason) uptime as an int then cast it. All of the procps binaries didn't use the return value for uptime except ps which set a variable to it but never used it anywhere.
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.\" Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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.\" %%%LICENSE_END
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.\"
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.TH PROCPS_UPTIME 3 2016-04-16 "libproc-2"
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.TH PROCPS_UPTIME 3 2016-05-01 "libproc-2"
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.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
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.\"
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.SH NAME
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@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ fills the location of the two double points with the current sytem uptime
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and idle time.
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.SH RETURN VALUE
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.BR procps_uptime ()
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returns a positive integer which is the uptime on success. On failure, it
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returns 0 on success. On failure, it
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returns a negative integer to one of the values defined below.
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.TP
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.B -ERANGE
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