[CentOS] leap second

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Mon Jul 2 20:02:07 UTC 2012


On 07/02/2012 12:54 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Sooo... Are the 6.x boxes that did not exhibit a problem yet still
> likely to have it if you start a threaded program or did it have to
> happen in the 1 second window?

As far as I know, it could still pop up.  The futex handling in the 
kernel will be screwed up until the system reboots, or until the time is 
set using an API that wasn't affected by the bug.  That's why one of the 
recommended fixes is just to:

date -s "`date`"





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