From: J Sloan <jjs@lexus.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Nasty suprise with uptime
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:19:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BDEFD46.4C64E88D@lexus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15yUqo-0005pU-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
> > Say, if the uptime field were unsigned it could
> > reach 995 days uptime before wraparound -
>
> Only on a 33bit processor - and those are kind of rare
Yes (DOH) - I was fooled when I saw the
long data type - when I actually did the
arithmetic to make sure, I saw that was
a red herring.
cu
jjs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-30 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-29 20:31 Nasty suprise with uptime J Sloan
2001-10-29 20:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-29 20:39 ` J Sloan
2001-10-29 20:47 ` Matthew Dharm
2001-10-29 20:52 ` J Sloan
2001-11-09 0:45 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-10-29 21:26 ` David Relson
2001-10-29 23:29 ` Jonathan Briggs
2001-10-30 8:53 ` george anzinger
2001-10-30 13:50 ` Tim Walberg
2001-10-30 14:47 ` GOMBAS Gabor
2001-10-30 15:39 ` Tim Walberg
2001-10-30 16:18 ` GOMBAS Gabor
2001-10-30 22:53 ` Mike Castle
2001-10-30 8:20 ` george anzinger
2001-10-30 9:47 ` bert hubert
2001-10-30 10:37 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-30 15:56 ` Chris Meadors
2001-10-30 16:22 ` Laurent de Segur
2001-10-30 21:53 ` [OT] " J Sloan
2001-10-30 22:52 ` Jan Dvorak
2001-10-30 23:25 ` [OT] " J Sloan
2001-10-30 7:46 ` Neale Banks
2001-10-30 7:46 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-30 8:15 ` Ville Herva
2001-10-30 8:22 ` Ville Herva
2001-10-30 8:36 ` J. Dow
2001-10-30 9:33 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-30 16:25 ` Matt Bernstein
2001-10-30 19:43 ` Oden Eriksson
2001-10-29 23:10 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-29 23:20 ` J Sloan
2001-10-29 23:28 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-30 8:21 ` Ville Herva
2001-10-31 22:36 ` J Sloan
2001-11-01 0:49 ` Gerhard Mack
2001-10-30 8:49 ` george anzinger
2001-10-30 18:17 ` J Sloan
2001-10-30 9:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-30 19:19 ` J Sloan [this message]
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2001-10-30 16:35 Jesse Pollard
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