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Re: Thread-ID - how much could be?

Date 2014-09-12 13:41 +1000
From Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
Subject Re: Thread-ID - how much could be?
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On 12Sep2014 11:29, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>[...]maxint. I know that some Linux
>systems can have an uptime over a year, perhaps even two years, but I think
>that nearly 300 years is asking a bit much.

2 years is nothing. Unless they have a particularly buggy kernel, most UNIX 
systems, Linux included, will stay up almost indefinitely. We've definitely had 
systems up for well over 2 years.

>Your hardware probably won't
>keep working that long.

300 years? Probably not. Regrettably.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

We need a taxonomy for 'printing-that-is-no-longer-printing.'
- overhead by WIRED at the Intelligent Printing conference Oct2006

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Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> - 2014-09-11 23:32 +0200
  Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-12 11:29 +1000
    Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-12 11:49 +1000
    Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-09-11 20:38 -0500
    Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-09-12 13:41 +1000
    Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-12 15:41 +1000
    Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> - 2014-09-12 08:30 +0200
    Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? dieter <dieter@handshake.de> - 2014-09-13 08:56 +0200
    Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-09-13 09:48 +0200
    Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Martin Skjöldebrand <shieldfire@gmail.com> - 2014-09-13 12:09 +0200
    Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> - 2014-09-13 12:32 +0200
  Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2014-09-16 10:53 +0200

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