Re: kern.boottime drift after boot?

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

RVP wrote:

> I think what David's looking for is something akin to Linux's
>
> /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id
>
> something which only changes on every boot but is otherwise stable.

I'm curious how well this boot_id works on Linux for things like a
embedded system (eg router) that boots from a ram disk and doesn't have
an RTC.  Essentially a similar problem to our long-running entropy
discussion.

Cheers,
Simon.