Re: jiffies wraparound

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 16:13:21 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

>> by zero, the 2.1.126 time code survived this quick 'time travel' without
>> problems. Apart from processes getting killed during wraparound, there is
>> no big problem, is there?
>
>Im losing the entire tty subsystem for good when this occurs

Alan did you removed all wrap fixes from sched.c ? The tty subsystem think
that -1 means after a lot, while if you fix the wrap bug -1 go in the
past.

Andrea Arcangeli

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