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To: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: incorrect output from w 
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 23:21:34 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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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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