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Subject: Re: [9fans] stats.c bug
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:59:34 -0400
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> if a machine is left running cpu-heavy applications for a long time (say,
> a week) those numbers will overflow and strtol() will return LONG_MAX as the
> value. the net effect is that stats.c will not display context, syscalls and
> interrupts properly.

umm, what if i leave it running for two weeks?