F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

Tue Jul 3 00:46:42 UTC 2012

On 7/2/12, Steven Bellovin <smb at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:47 AM, AP NANOG wrote:
>> Do you happen to know all the kernels and versions affected by this?
> See
> http://landslidecoding.blogspot.com/2012/07/linuxs-leap-second-deadlocks.html
> 		--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

Someone should write a dastardly  system clock daemon to cause the
insertion of frequent spurious positive leap seconds,  followed by the
   spurious insertion of negative leap seconds.

For testing purposes... any application which crashes under such a
test,  should be repaired  or not used in any critical capacity

--
-JH