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SubjectRe: Nasty suprise with uptime
A 32 bit uptime patch should also include a new kernel parameter that 
could be passed from LILO: uptime. Then you could test the uptime patch
by passing uptime=4294967295

Or make /proc/uptime writable.

David Relson wrote:

> Let's assume you have the counter changed to 32 bits - RIGHT NOW
> (tm). Build a kernel, install it, reboot. It'll be over a year
> (approx Jan 2003) before the change will be noticeable...
>
> Methinks that's a long time to wait for a result :-)
>
> David
>


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