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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp timer.c
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>> Linux-2.1.29: timevals are converted to jiffies and not used again; some
>>               overflows are corrected, others give silly times.
>
>I dunno if I should ask, but what's a jiffie (note there's no capital
>J !).

A jiffy is 1 Linux clock tick.  What's a capital Jiffy? :-)

Bruce