-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Birrell wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 07:00:28PM +0200, Max Laier wrote: >> On Wednesday 11 June 2008 07:12:57 John Birrell wrote: >>> It's been a few weeks now since I committed DTrace support to current. >>> >>> I did this without a headsup message to this list to give the early >>> adopters a chance to try it before exposing it to the world at large. >> ... >>> 11. Go wild! >> This might be a stupid question, but it seems that timestamp (and friends) >> roll-over at 32bit, not 64 as advertised in the documentation. Is this a >> feature or a bug? > > It's a bug. I'm not convinced it's actually a roll-over problem though. Piece of trivia I once picked up, that as it was orignally released, Windows NT would reliably hang every 40 days (f it ever lasted that long). Seems that NT was keeping uptime in terms of milliseconds, with no rollover, which it would do anyhow every 40 days. Gave several of my friends a laugh. > > -- > John Birrell > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIXXw2z62J6PPcoOkRAppBAKCL4ebaZm5lhh2AUs3BYb5QbbOQ8QCfWKE6 xK6IYjNAVddaDG5AkKiltqk= =UGgB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Sat Jun 21 2008 - 20:20:45 UTC
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