Ro 2005-11-29
No access to usenet, but I see a question about getting uptime in windows.
Use ffidl to hook into win32 api.
ffidl::callout dll_GetTickCount {} long [ffidl::symbol kernel32.dll GetTickCount] (main) 2 % dll_GetTickCount 555431843 (main) 3 % dll_GetTickCount 555433390
The way I do platform specific stuff in win32 is I search for VB (Visual Basic) people who have the same question I have, then I port their win32 calls to ffidl.
From MSDN:
GetTickCount returns the number of milliseconds since Windows started, and it resets to zero (0) if Windows is run continuously for approximately 49 days.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q113325/
http://groups.google.ca/group/microsoft.public.vb.winapi/browse_thread/thread/8b064954e90e2ee5/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/gettickcount.asp
APN 2006-07-04 Using TWAPI, get_system_uptime [L1 ] also provides this information.
set uptimeSeconds [get_system_uptime]