From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'Look out for the The Vulgar and Unprofessional Y22k Bug
Cygwin-Talk List'" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: setup.exe --quiet-mode
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <014a01c9142c$eb129570$9601a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gabfo8$rrf$1@ger.gmane.org>
Matthew Woehlke wrote on 11 September 2008 17:08:
> Phil Betts wrote:
>> [...] this is
>> Windowsland where rebooting is a way of life; even Windows'
>> programmers never expected uptime to exceed 2^32 milliseconds.
>
> (That's approximately 49 days for those too lazy to whip out a
> calculator. Which is pretty sad ;-).)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216641
"Computer Hangs After 49.7 Days"
> I'd actually be quite shocked if I don't have some Windows boxes around
> that have exceeded that (at least since NT5). I think I've kept my home
> computer up longer (back when it ran W2K), and likely some lab machines
> around work (which, granted, never have software or updates installed,
> so no reason to reboot).
It was only ever true for Win95 and early versions of Win98. All NT-series
OSs count time in units of 100ns using a 64-bit long long. Which won't run
out any time soon....
cheers,
DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
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2008-09-11 16:08 ` Matthew Woehlke
2008-09-11 16:39 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2008-09-11 16:51 ` Matthew Woehlke
2008-09-11 17:00 ` Dave Korn
2008-09-11 20:18 ` the importance of the timer rollover bug in Win9x Warren Young
2008-09-11 23:25 ` Dave Korn
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