From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265598AbUBAV1L (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:27:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265608AbUBAV1L (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:27:11 -0500 Received: from khan.acc.umu.se ([130.239.18.139]:35802 "EHLO khan.acc.umu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265598AbUBAV1I (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:27:08 -0500 Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 22:27:05 +0100 From: David Weinehall To: Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4stbacka?= Cc: Christian Borntraeger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Uptime counter Message-ID: <20040201212705.GB15492@khan.acc.umu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4stbacka?= , Christian Borntraeger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200402012202.07204.kernel@borntraeger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Accept-Language: Swedish, English X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7ACE 0FB0 7A74 F994 9B36 E1D1 D14E 8526 DC47 CA16 X-GPG-Key: http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/files/pubkey_dc47ca16.gpg.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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... :-) > But anyway, thanks for the information! Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/