Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/10/07 19:09

J.O. Aho wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> J.O. Aho wrote:
>>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>> Henk Oegema wrote:
>>>>>> J.O. Aho wrote:
>>>>> Tnx Aho for answering. :)
>>>>>> Henk Oegema wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You would need to use
>>>>>>
>>>>>> export day=`php /path/to/yout/file/uptime.php`
>>>>>>
>>>>>> if you use it this way, you need to make the script to take
>>>>>> arguments, so
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> you can get the day, hour and minute alone. Don't forget to echo
>>>>>> about
>>>>>> the value.
>>>>> Can you please be a little bit more specific. It's not quit clear to
>>>>> me.
>>>>> Why (and how) must the script take arguments? The values of the 3
>>>>> variables are already known to the script.
>>>>> I only need to pass them to the operating system.
>>>>>> Otherwise you can use a shell script with awk that can read out the
>>>>>> values
>>>>>> and then set each variable, but then you could skip using php, as you
>>>>>> get
>>>>>> the uptime from uptime command directly.
>>>>> You right, this is also a possibility.
>>>> But what's the operating system going to do with them?
>>>> The operating system doesn't take parameters. Rather, you run a program
>>>> (even if it is the shell) which does something with parameters.
>>> The values are already "stored" in the OS in question, it do have
>>> track of
>>> it's own lifespan, but of course not stored as a variable that is
>>> accessible
>>> by the shell.
>
>> How are they "stored" in the OS? From what he's saying, they're in his
>> program and he needs to tell the OS about them somehow.
>>
> The os is aware of the system clock and knows how many ticks it been running,
> in that way the values are stored.
>

Yes, but that's not necessarily the value in his program, is it?

Something entirely different.

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