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Date:      Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:21:34 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: incorrect output from w 
Message-ID:  <199809160521.XAA04237@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 01:54:55 %2B0200." <199809152354.BAA22756@qix> 
References:  <199809152354.BAA22756@qix>  

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In message <199809152354.BAA22756@qix> Jean-Marc Zucconi writes:
: How can the IDLE time be greater than the uptime?

If the atime of the /dev/ttyp2 node is for some reason fubar'd...  w
looks at this time to see how long the user has been idle.  I don't
know why this would be the case, but it appears so.

Warner

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