Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:42:51 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern tty.c Message-ID: <200111260342.fAQ3gpY40667@aslan.scsiguy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:26:57 PST." <200111170026.fAH0QvX25570@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>peter 2001/11/16 16:26:57 PST > > Modified files: > sys/kern tty.c > Log: > utime/stime.tv_sec are elapsed times, not relative to 1970. We can > safely print them as longs. Even if ^T overflows after a process > has accumulated 68 years of user or system time, it is no big deal. I wonder if this will be such a safe assumption when we're running on highly parallel machines? Even on just a 16 CPU box, you'd only need 4.25 years of wallclock time to see an overflow. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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