Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] jiffies wraparound [Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft] | Date | Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:55:38 +0300 (EEST) | From | Matti Aarnio <> |
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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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