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Where does the Linux uptime command get its data?

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Where does the Linux uptime command get its data?

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Linux Questions@lemmy.zipEnglish · 1 year ago

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Does it get the uptime of pid 1 or something else?

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It reads it from /proc/uptime, which is generated by the kernel.

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