On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Warren Young <warren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/2/2012 10:24 AM, Peter Eckel wrote:
>>
>> ... and leap seconds are not even scarce.
>
> An event on an unpredictable schedule averaging 1.7 years since 1972
> doesn't count as "scarce"?
"Unpredictible" means you don't know something is coming in time to
test for what to expect from its effect. I don't see how that applies
here.
> That's the answer to Les's outrage, too, by the way. Might as well
> expect the JRE to have code to deal with cosmic ray damage that gets by
> ECC, too.
Well, if there were a well known, long-standing API for that, and the
time it was going to happen announced months ahead yes, I would expect
it to be tested too. But, per the earlier discussion it is a kernel
bug, not the JRE. I'd sort of expect java builds to have unit tests
for their APIs.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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