Merge branch 't/uptime_cleanup'

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  0.4.9 (to be announced) "hybrid causality"
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- 
 +      - Fix for an endless loop in the mp3 decoder for certain
 +        (corrupt) mp3 files.
 +      - autogen.sh now detects a distcc setup and adjusts the
 +        parameter for the -j option of make accordingly.
 +      - Shared memory areas are no longer restricted to 64K. We now
 +        detect the maximal size of a shared memory area at runtime.
++      - cleanup of the internal uptime API.
 +
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  0.4.8 (2011-08-19) "nested assignment"
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