diff -ruN reuse-4.2.1/source/db/revisions reuse/source/db/revisions
--- reuse-4.2.1/source/db/revisions	2005-10-27 13:05:19.000000000 +0400
+++ reuse/source/db/revisions	2005-11-07 13:49:36.000000000 +0300
@@ -575,3 +575,4 @@
 unix/stream_io.c 6 9 1927650
 ./include/reuse/Sets.h 6 8 315277
 ./include/reuse/osdeps.h 6 22 214306
+unix/exec.c 6 35 3451533
diff -ruN reuse-4.2.1/source/db/versions reuse/source/db/versions
--- reuse-4.2.1/source/db/versions	2005-10-27 13:05:20.000000000 +0400
+++ reuse/source/db/versions	2005-11-09 10:04:49.000000000 +0300
@@ -97,3 +97,4 @@
 1900 4.0 1 2005/03/28
 1903 4.2 0 2005/08/08
 1916 4.2 1 2005/10/27
+1917 4.2 2 2005/11/09
diff -ruN reuse-4.2.1/source/NEWS reuse/source/NEWS
--- reuse-4.2.1/source/NEWS	2005-10-27 13:24:42.000000000 +0400
+++ reuse/source/NEWS	2005-11-09 10:02:39.000000000 +0300
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-$Id: NEWS,v 6.12 2005/10/27 09:07:28 cher Exp $
+$Id: NEWS,v 6.14 2005/11/09 07:02:39 cher Exp $
+
+Reuse 4.2.2 (20051109)
+======================
+Fixes for Linux kernel 2.6.
 
 Reuse 4.2.1 (20051027)
 ======================
diff -ruN reuse-4.2.1/source/unix/exec.c reuse/source/unix/exec.c
--- reuse-4.2.1/source/unix/exec.c	2005-10-27 12:57:52.000000000 +0400
+++ reuse/source/unix/exec.c	2005-11-07 13:47:25.000000000 +0300
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Id: exec.c,v 6.34 2005/10/27 08:57:52 cher Exp $ */
+/* $Id: exec.c,v 6.35 2005/11/07 10:47:25 cher Exp $ */
 
 /* Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Alexander Chernov <cher@ispras.ru> */
 /* Created: <1998-01-21 14:33:28 cher> */
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <time.h>
 #include <sys/ptrace.h>
+#include <sys/utsname.h>
 
 #ifdef __linux__
 #include <sys/utsname.h>
@@ -1769,8 +1770,9 @@
    * running a simple program with time limit set to 0 sec and
    * measuring the actual running time
    */
-  int pid, status, retcode;
+  int pid, status, retcode, mjver, mnver;
   struct rusage usage;
+  struct utsname buf;
 
   if (linux_fix_time_flag >= 0) return;
   if (linux_ms_time_limit >= 0) return;
@@ -1792,6 +1794,17 @@
   if (WIFEXITED(status) && WEXITSTATUS(status) == 0)
     linux_ms_time_limit = 1;
 
+  /* it looks like this check does not work on 2.6/x86_64 */
+  if (uname(&buf) >= 0) {
+    // however `uname' may hardly fail...
+    if (!strcasecmp(buf.sysname, "linux")
+        && sscanf(buf.release, "%d.%d", &mjver, &mnver) == 2
+        && (mjver >= 3 || (mjver == 2 && mnver >= 6))) {
+      linux_fix_time_flag = 0;
+      return;
+    }
+  }
+
   if ((pid = fork()) < 0) return;
   if (!pid) {
     struct rlimit lim;
@@ -1821,7 +1834,7 @@
 
 #if REUSE_COMPILE_CVSID - 0 != 0
 static char const cvsid[] =
-"$Id: exec.c,v 6.34 2005/10/27 08:57:52 cher Exp $";
+"$Id: exec.c,v 6.35 2005/11/07 10:47:25 cher Exp $";
 #endif /* REUSE_COMPILE_CVSID */
 
 /*