Date: 09 May 2001 16:24:49 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: dwmalone@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/27215: when cat'ing /compat/linux/proc/stat, we have negative numbers Message-ID: <xzpvgnaha6m.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105092239510.18209-100000@besplex.bde.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105092239510.18209-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes: > It mainly obscures the bug, by moving obvious overflow after LONG_MAX/100 > statclock ticks to unobvious overflow after ULONG_MAX/100 statclock ticks. > Overflow thresholds for some cases: > > i386, stathz = 128: before: 1.94 days; after : 3.88 days > alpha, stathz = 1024: before: 2.85 million years; after: 5.71 million years Argh. What are the chances of making cp_time an array of uint64_ts instead of longs? Would that break any existing binary interfaces? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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