Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: jiffies wraparound | Date | Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:52:20 +0200 (MEST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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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
> Shrug, Linus hath spoken. Onwards 2.2
He's usually right too. But that other possibility shouldn't be dismissed....
I think that those "testers" running 2.1 kernels haven't been interested in running a kernel for over a year. That's why we've been having 2.1 kernels for a long time now, without anybody noticing the jiffies-wraparound problem. Now that 2.2 is closing in on us, some odds and ends need to be taken care of.
Jiffies-wraparound, I think, is one of them. Here in the netherlands, Linux machines are being used in hospitals. As far as I know, they don't run the heart-lung machine. But I know for sure that they don't get rebooted every night.
Roger.
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