atc Musings of technology, sport, life et al #header « Careful with sudo – giving access to vi/vim via sudo could allow someone to wreak havoc A better “reddit this” bookmark button » I keep getting the exclamation mark in htop next to the uptime and always wondered why it’s there. According to t his mailing list post it’s a little easter egg in UptimeMeter.c : 35 char daysbuf[15]; 36 if (days > 100) { 37 sprintf(daysbuf, "%d days(!), ", days); 38 } else if (days > 1) { 39 sprintf(daysbuf, "%d days, ", days); 40 } else if (days == 1) { 41 sprintf(daysbuf, "1 day, "); 42 } else { 43 daysbuf[0] = '\0'; 44 } This entry was written by atc and posted on January 14, 2009 at 11:02 and filed under Linux , NoNeedForWindows , Programming , Technology . Bookmark the permalink . Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post ...