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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

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