Re: Uptime counter

[David Weinehall]

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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