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rir wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: r> By the tone of your responses, I guess that you both don't r> think any app's are counting on this counter being consistant. Uptime is actually tied to the jiffy counter, which is in the kernel and is used for a lot of mysterious stuff. Anything which implicates a random number generator could potentially affected, especially if you are relying on that generator to be of cryptographic quality. Some protocols, such as NFS, make critical use of short time measurements, as do some security protocols such as Kerberos. I don't really know exactly what would break, but, since it's your machine, you would own the pieces. -- Mike - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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