[coyotos-dev] coyotos.sleep, sleepTill, the epoch

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 13/02/2007, at 19.58, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

>On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 23:56 +0100, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
>> On 13/02/2007, at 8.27, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>> >Finally -- and I have asked this before -- please give a concrete
>> >motivating example where knowing the time of installation actually
helps
>> >some real application.
>> 
>> A protected historical record of image installation date helps in:
>> 1. diagnostics, and statistics for large numbers of machines.
>> 2. forensic analysis.
>
>For both of these purposes, capturing the time of first boot is equally
>good.

If for you it is equally good, we can live with first boot time.
I give up, however it isn't equally satisfactory for my purpose.
Probably I will send later a detailed note of why it isn't.

val