Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:25:45 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matt Bernstein <> | Subject | Re: Nasty suprise with uptime |
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At 18:46 +1100 Neale Banks wrote:
>> It wraps at 496 days. The drivers are aware of it and dont crash the box > >You mean there was a time when uptime>496days would crash a system?
Amusingly I had to fight at an old workplace of mine to upgrade to a 2.1 kernel. I built 2.1.103 with a snapshot of a compiler which eventually became egcs-1.0.3 (IIRC) which hit that bug (long after I'd left the job).
I believe the fix went in at 2.1.106 or so :-/
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