Re: any known issues with leap seconds in 2.6.10?

From: Florian Attenberger
Date: Tue Jul 03 2007 - 12:49:32 EST


On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:54:45AM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
>
> I'm just wondering if anyone knows of issues with leap second handling in
> 2.6.10. We just had a field incident where a couple of quad-x86 machines
> went down at just before midnight (UTC) on June 30th...which is when leap
> seconds would normally be applied.
>
> From our logs it looks like something went crazy while holding the xtime
> lock.
>
> If anyone knows of issues with that code I'd love to hear about it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
look at the thread '2.6.21.5 june 30th to july 1st date hang'

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