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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 19:46:42 -0500
On 7/2/12, Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu> wrote:
On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:47 AM, AP NANOG wrote:Do you happen to know all the kernels and versions affected by this?See http://landslidecoding.blogspot.com/2012/07/linuxs-leap-second-deadlocks.html --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
Someone should write a dastardly system clock daemon to cause the insertion of frequent spurious positive leap seconds, followed by the spurious insertion of negative leap seconds. For testing purposes... any application which crashes under such a test, should be repaired or not used in any critical capacity -- -JH
Current thread:
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?, (continued)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jim Mercer (Jul 01)
- RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? George Bonser (Jul 01)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? AP NANOG (Jul 02)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Alex Harrowell (Jul 02)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jay Ashworth (Jul 02)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Michael Thomas (Jul 02)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Joly MacFie (Jul 02)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Matthew Palmer (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Bryan Horstmann-Allen (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? AP NANOG (Jul 02)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Steven Bellovin (Jul 02)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jimmy Hess (Jul 02)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Joly MacFie (Jul 02)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Wolfgang S. Rupprecht (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Owen DeLong (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Jay Ashworth (Jul 03)
- RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Keith Medcalf (Jul 03)
- RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Peter Lothberg (Jul 03)
- RE: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Vadim Antonov (Jul 03)
- Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work? Tony Finch (Jul 03)