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Date:      Sat, 10 May 1997 16:06:22 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, brian@awfulhak.org
Cc:        ache@nagual.pp.ru, brian@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp timer.c
Message-ID:  <199705100606.QAA07705@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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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



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