-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Harris
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 6:24 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: leap second
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:09:41AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I'm sort of curious about how a bug of this magnitude slips through
> the QA process (into java and RHEL, not CentOS). With all the furor
> about y2k, did no one even bother to simulate a leap second ahead of
> the real occurrence?
The kernel bug is a race condition; simulations may not have detected
it.
-----Original Message-----
Very well, but this isn't the first leap second-insertion (2005, 2009), and certainly not the last.
I never heard of such consequences before.
Hans
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