[154355] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Mon Jul 2 20:47:25 2012
In-Reply-To: <E8886CD8-A24B-4B50-B5AF-AB6A81E706E1@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 19:46:42 -0500
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
