Re: [PATCH] make jiffies wrap 5 min after boot

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda (mulix@mulix.org)
Date: Sun Feb 16 2003 - 02:16:59 EST

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On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:37:40AM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 21:43, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>
> > Can I get a vote for ~0UL instead of -1UL?
>
> OK, I bite. What is the difference? Aren't both equivalent?

I have no idea if that's what wli meant, but -1UL is only "all ones"
in a 2's complement binary representation.

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