On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/06/2015 01:41 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> 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. > > > https://access.redhat.com/articles/15145 > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0496.html Helpful, but not exactly concise... And I don't understand the concept of /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/*. Are those supposed to print the right time if your clock is left wrong? > Contrary to your previous assertion, in 2012, it was not the kernel that > consumed CPU cycles. That problem was seen in user space. But it is just as much the kernel's fault if it returns from nanosleep()/usleep() instantly without counting any time down so you spin in user space as if stayed in the kernel. Nothing in user space could have fixed it. > The problem was > fixed by changing the kernel's implementation of leap second handling, but > the reason that you are being told that testing your applications is the > only way to verify that there is not a problem is that these problems aren't > confined to the kernel and tzdata packages. Unknown problems can happen anywhere/any time. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com