Hello...

This patch fixes the overflow-problem with /proc/uptime after 497 days,
it applies to Kernel 2.4.3, but should also fit on every following
version as this part of the code in /usr/src/linux/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
is not changed up to 2.4.9., AFAIK.

Tested this thing on my own machine (Kernel 2.4.3-SMP, RH7.1) and had no
negative effects.

I know this overflow was already discussed on the list, but this was in
1998 (at least the archive says this) and since then no fix made it in
the stable kernel, so i decided to write my own. (Could not let this
MS-guy at work talk on about "Bugs in Linux!" :-))

The fix does nothing weird, it only watches if an overflow of "jiffies"
occurs, and if, corrects the values of "uptime" and "idletime" in
/proc/uptime. It cannot do this in any case, but i think its a good
workaround for the problem.

This is my first kernel-patch...tell me what is wrong :-)

Solong..
mfg Frank.

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Frank Schneider, <SPATZ1@T-ONLINE.DE>.                           
Microsoft isn't the answer.
Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.
... -.-