From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 02:07:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 02:07:08 -0500 Received: from smtp.actcom.co.il ([192.114.47.13]:8660 "EHLO lmail.actcom.co.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 02:07:08 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:16:59 +0200 From: Muli Ben-Yehuda To: Robert Love Cc: lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] make jiffies wrap 5 min after boot Message-ID: <20030216071659.GB6417@actcom.co.il> References: <20030216020808.GF9833@krispykreme> <20030216024317.GM29983@holomorphy.com> <1045377459.2175.0.camel@phantasy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1045377459.2175.0.camel@phantasy> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:37:40AM -0500, Robert Love wrote: > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 21:43, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > > Can I get a vote for ~0UL instead of -1UL? > > OK, I bite. What is the difference? Aren't both equivalent? I have no idea if that's what wli meant, but -1UL is only "all ones" in a 2's complement binary representation. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://syscalltrack.sf.net