Re: [patch] jiffies wraparound [Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft]

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:59:53 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

>On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
>
>> timeout = HZ/10;
>
>And what about to decalre timeout `int' and not `long'?

Hmm, sk->lingertime is a timeout delta and is an unsinged long and is
measured in seconds so an int couldn' t handle such timeout delta on 64
bit arch. For this reason I returned to long...

Andrea Arcangeli

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