* Steve Kowalik (stevenk@debian.org) wrote: > At 9:18 pm, Saturday, April 27 2002, Stephen Frost mumbled: > > I agree with this and wonder if the linux kernel was ever actually fixed > > to not wrap the uptime counter at 497 days anyway. If not that cute > > feature of going to decades, at least under linux, might not be used > > much. > > > I believe that is a hardware limitation. 32-bit counter, or something. Depends on how you look at it. Yes, it changes depending on the hardware, but it's not a real limitation of the hardware itself. There has been quite a bit of talk about this on lkml. If you're interested you might check out your nearest archive. Stephen
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