[CentOS] leap second

[Stephen Harris]

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.

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rgds
Stephen