Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:05:46 -0700 | From | Mark Hull-Richter <> | Subject | Re: Clock |
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"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > > The maximum interval the kernel can delay for is 2^31/HZ seconds, not > 2^32, because we need to distinguish between past and future. However, > device and networking drivers only use jiffies for relatively short-term > timeouts: the longer-term timeouts are all measured in seconds > (sometimes allowing fractional seconds too, as in the struct timeval), > so they won't time out for a few years yet. (But we still have problems > in the year 2038.) > But by then all existing 32-bit machines will be completely obsolete and we'll all have upgraded to 64-bit hardware, or at least 64-bit OS's. It would be absurd to think that anything running today will survive that long.
Right?
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