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From: EBo <ebo@sandien.com>
To: <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] nsec limits?
Date: Mon,  1 Aug 2011 08:22:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <051eba83264b80a214d954252a348b81@swcp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f1c96759475c0a5e3b8a59eec02d2dc@brasstown.quanstro.net>

 On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 08:36:22 -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
> if nsec(2) is wrapping around then time(2) will also wrap around.
> i have not seen nsec do anything like that.  it sounds to me like
> you may be having integer truncation problems.  are you using a
> (u)vlong variable to store the results of nsec?

 Thanks, I had all the variables defined as vlongs, but read it back in
 later as a long... oops.

 Thanks again,

   EBo --




  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-01 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-01 12:17 EBo
2011-08-01 12:36 ` erik quanstrom
2011-08-01 13:22   ` EBo [this message]
2011-08-01 15:57 ` ron minnich
2011-08-01 17:12   ` EBo
2011-08-01 17:17     ` ron minnich
2011-08-01 20:25       ` EBo
2011-08-01 22:25         ` Charles Forsyth
2011-08-01 22:51           ` EBo
2011-08-01 23:06             ` ron minnich
2011-08-01 23:31               ` EBo
2011-08-01 23:14             ` Charles Forsyth
2011-08-01 23:19               ` Charles Forsyth
2011-08-01 23:49                 ` EBo
2011-08-01 23:25               ` erik quanstrom

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