procps/doc/procps_uptime.3
Craig Small 8e20fa7786 library: document and tests for uptime functions
man pages for the three procps_uptime* functions and simple
test scripts for same functions.
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.TH PROCPS_UPTIME 3 2016-04-16 "libproc-2"
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.SH NAME
procps_uptime \-
provide the uptime and idle time in seconds
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <proc/procps.h>
.sp
.BI "int procps_uptime(double * " uptime_secs ", double * " idle_secs ");"
.sp
Link with \fI\-lprocps\fP.
.SH DESCRIPTION
The function
.BR procps_uptime ()
fills the location of the two double points with the current sytem uptime
and idle time.
.SH RETURN VALUE
.BR procps_uptime ()
returns a positive integer which is the uptime on success. On failure, it
returns a negative integer to one of the values defined below.
.TP
.B -ERANGE
Unable to parse the uptime file.
.PP
.BR procps_uptime ()
may also return any (negated) value that \fBfopen\fR() may set errno to.
.SH FILES
.TP
.I /proc/uptime
The raw values for uptime and idle time.
.SH VERSIONS
.B procps_uptime()
first appeared in libproc-2 version 0.0.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR fopen (3),
.BR proc (5).