Re: Uptime counter

From: David Weinehall (tao_at_acc.umu.se)
Date: 02/01/04

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To: Markus Hästbacka <midian@ihme.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 

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