Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:19:34 -0800 | From | J Sloan <> | Subject | Re: Nasty suprise with uptime |
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Alan Cox wrote:
> > Say, if the uptime field were unsigned it could > > reach 995 days uptime before wraparound - > > Only on a 33bit processor - and those are kind of rare
Yes (DOH) - I was fooled when I saw the long data type - when I actually did the arithmetic to make sure, I saw that was a red herring.
cu
jjs
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