On Wed 2012-07-18T12:47:11 -0400, Finkleman, Dave hath writ: > What is the issue with two parallel time > systems in LINUX? More to the point, would anything but leap second > insertion have provoked the issues experienced?
I am not a linux kernel hacker, merely someone who has ported one linux device driver from the days when the Big Kernel Lock (BKL) existed to the modern age when there is no longer a BKL. If I am not mistaken one of the parts of the linux kernel affected by the leap second involves the high-resolution timer (hrtimer) code, and that is newer than the 2008 leap second. If I read the following thread correctly there were other flaws in the hrtimer code which were revealed by invoking suspend/resume. https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/linux.kernel/5xe7tUBBqtU A better answer would come from a linux kernel hacker. -- Steve Allen <[email protected]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
