From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263510AbUBDQXI (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:23:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263620AbUBDQXI (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:23:08 -0500 Received: from host-64-65-253-246.alb.choiceone.net ([64.65.253.246]:48052 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263510AbUBDQXG (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:23:06 -0500 Message-ID: <40211CC8.7030204@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 11:24:40 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Borntraeger CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Markus_H=E4stbacka?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Uptime counter References: <200402012202.07204.kernel@borntraeger.net> In-Reply-To: <200402012202.07204.kernel@borntraeger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christian Borntraeger wrote: > Markus Hästbacka wrote: > >>Hi list, >>I wonder does any kernel branch have a uptime counter that doesn't stop >>counting at 497 days? Or is a patch needed for the job to >>2.{0,2,4,6} kernel? > > > In 2.6 there is no 497 days limit, as jiffies are now 64 bit. > > By the way: Having a machine with more than 497 days of uptime normally > shows a serios lack of security awareness.. Think embedded systems... -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979