On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Chris Adams linux@cmadams.net wrote:
Short answer: last time it was threaded stuff like Java, the time before it was systems under heavy kernel loads. Who knows, this time Postfix could hang, or MySQL could corrupt databases, or something else. Probably nothing will happen, but if you want a "cover your ass" report, I don't think anybody has done that.
I'm not looking for a research project on how to prove that the last bug has been found or not. And I'm not particularly concerned about application-level bugs. Every time a second rolls over we take a chance of hitting a new previously unknown bug. We're all taking that chance.
I just want the package revisions for at least the kernel and tzdata* files and anything else where previously-found bugs related to the leap second have been fixed. What I want to know (and be able to describe concisely to a non-geek person) is that on a particular machine either that the known/expected bugs have been fixed, or that they haven't and we need to schedule a reboot. And it seems like something everyone else using a distribution would want to know as well, at least for machines where scheduling a reboot is no-trivial.