george anzinger wrote:
> J Sloan wrote:
>
> > Say, if the uptime field were unsigned it could
> > reach 995 days uptime before wraparound -
>
> Actually 497 days is from the max jiffies in an unsigned int. Up time
> converts this to seconds... (HZ = 100) jiffies units are 1/HZ.
]Yes, I see now you are right -
Once I bothered to do the arithmetic,
I see it's already being treated as an
unsigned long, so just changing the
type in the struct won't buy us anything....
So much for quick fixes - I wonder what
FreeBSD does here...
cu
jjs
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