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

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:55:38 +0300 (EEST)

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> suggested:
> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
> > timeout = HZ/10;
> And what about to decalre timeout `int' and not `long'?
> Andrea Arcangeli

You would get Alpha users to worry about wrap-around in
about 24.3 days ... (2^31/HZ seconds) No thanks.
(Now we don't need to care of it before about 0.3 gigayears..)

/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>

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