2 Jul
2012
2 Jul
'12
8:46 p.m.
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.htm... --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