Uptime starts with one second

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Apr 1 07:40:34 UTC 2015


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As I recall (author of timecounters here...) the ARP code was the
reason we had to start uptime at one.  Can't remember what it did
if uptime was zero, but probably some variant of "not working".

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