Re: Uptime counter

Markus Hästbacka
2004-02-01T21:36:18Z

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, David Weinehall wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:16:56PM +0200, Markus Hästbacka wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > >
> > > In 2.6 there is no 497 days limit, as jiffies are now 64 bit.
> > >
> > Ok, I just would be intrested in a patch for 2.0 and 2.4 to get these
> > jiffies to 64 bit.
> > > By the way: Having a machine with more than 497 days of uptime normally
> > > shows a serios lack of security awareness..
> > >
> > I know, but running a 2.0.x machine with that kind of uptime isn't really
> > that bad, thought if the machine has alot of accounts it wouldn't be that
> > great idea.
>
> Well, you're soon going to reboot to install the upcoming 2.0.40, right?
> And I promise to release 2.0.41 before you've had 497 days of uptime
> with that one... :-)
>
Of course :)
But when you'll stop releasing stuff, then it's time to see that :)
> > But anyway, thanks for the information!
>
>
> Regards: David Weinehall
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Btw, when is it coming? :-)

Markus