> Trivially fixed with the existing 64-bit jiffies patches. As it is,
> your uptime wraps to zero after 472 days or something like that if you
> don't have the 64-bit jiffies patch, which is totally in the realm of
> possibility for Linux servers.
Why are we still measuring uptime using the tick variable? Ticks != time.
Surely we should be recording the boot time somewhere (probably on a
file system), and then comparing that with the current time?
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