Re: Boulder Pledge
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:35:27 +0100 "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:37:55AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > 497days * 24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds * 100 ticks per second =
> > 4294944000
>
> That looks phony... you have four 10 factors on the left side but only
> three zeroes at the end of your result.
Yup, it should be
~/ echo $[497*24*3600*100]
4294080000
> And besides that... why are you multiplying by 100 Hz?
The 497 days' uptime bug is caused by jiffies wrapping around, and the i386
kernel uses 100 jiffies per second.
Stephen
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