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SubjectRe: jiffies wraparound
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:50:52PM -0800, Nicholas Vinen wrote:
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> Random thought. I was reading a fairly old book (Linux Device Drivers
> published by O'Reilly) and it mentions that on Intel machines the jiffies
> count will wrap sometime after a year of uptime (4 billion / 100 seconds).
> It also mentioned that weird stuff may happen at this time (as you may
> expect, if anyone is making poor assumptions about jiffies).

It is an old book, this has been dealt with already (fixes were done
pre-2.2 IIRC). Now wraparounds cause no harm.

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