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SubjectRe: jiffies wraparound
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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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