[NTLUG:Discuss] times(2)

[George E. Lass]

Jonathan Miller wrote:
> 
> This is a libc problem. The page for this project
> is at: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
> 
> They are using GNATs which just seems to be a horrible (yet very GNU
> looking) bug tracking system. So I don't know how much help that'll
> be.
> 
> You might need to upgrade your C libraries, I know the new one's just wrap
> around at 248 or 495 days.
> 
> I can't really find any specific information, sorry. You might try joining
> the glibc mailing list, or looking for a FAQ (because I'm sure this is a
> FAQ).
> 
> -- Jonathan

We had the problem with "times" after 248 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes
56.?? seconds.
I've been using google:  http://www.google.com/linux
to do searches on "jiffies" and it looks like jiffies wrap / used to
wrap at 495
days.

In any event I'll take a look on gnu.org, thanks for the tip.

George

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