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From: J Sloan <jjs@lexus.com>
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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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