bug(uptime): when using `/dev/mem` no errors

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
64/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli, operating-systems

Research direction

Start by reproducing the reported uptime /dev/mem command and inspect the uptime entry point and its boot-time error handling. Done means the command reports uptime: couldn't get boot time for this input, while normal uptime behavior remains intact.

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Description

U - uptime

Hi, uutils mainteners

that was interesting with the uptime uu utility, we confirmed

relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$ sudo ./uptime /dev/mem
 03:14:40  up  01:00,  0 users,  load average: 0.84, 0.98, 0.99
relunsec@relunsec:~/software/coreutils/target/debug$

no

uptime: couldn't get boot time

expected error

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