On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:18, Eric Huff wrote:
> > $ uptime
> >   2:44pm  up 154 days,  2:54,  2 users,  load average: 0.24, 0.05,
> >   0.02
> > 
> > This is from a (Mdk 8.2) box thats already hit the 497 day Jiffie
> > wrap limit...
> 
> Wat's that?
> 

Older Linux's have been recently discovered to count uptime to 497 days
then using a new form of math 497 + 1 = 0 .   I'm not sure but I think
it has something to do with a Honeywell emulation layer. (For those who
don't know Honeywell(IFRC) mainframes had both -0 and +0, and although
-0 = +0, (0-1) != (-0+1)  go figure)  

James
  


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