[CentOS] leap second

Mon Jul 2 16:33:05 UTC 2012
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

The java one seemed to be a pretty sure thing.   Was this just openjdk
or was the current Oracle version affected too?

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   Les Mikesell
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