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Leaping seconds and looping servers

Leaping seconds and looping servers

Posted Jul 4, 2012 9:29 UTC (Wed) by Tobu (subscriber, #24111)
In reply to: Leaping seconds and looping servers by butlerm
Parent article: Leaping seconds and looping servers

There was a recent patch (at the RFC stage) adding CLOCK_TAI to the kernel. The implementation is convoluted (John Stultz prefers if it is built using the current abstractions, which also had a problem with CLOCK_MONOTONIC pausing during a leap second), so it might still be bug-prone. Actually testing the damn clock subsystem ahead of time, and after reviewing any related commits, could compensate for that.


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