On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com 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.