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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com