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> But nobody has tested it in the wild. The FreeBSD (kernel) folks test their code for it: > I run the freebsd kernel and ntpd through "negative" leap second
by throw0101a 6y ago
> But nobody has tested it in the wild.
The FreeBSD (kernel) folks test their code for it:
> I run the freebsd kernel and ntpd through "negative" leap second events usually a couple times a year as part of testing our timekeeping products at $work. I'm skeptical that we'll ever see a negative leap, but we have some customers who insist on having it demonstrated to them as working correctly.
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Of course then there's userland…
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoGreat, at least we know the kernel is probably good (assuming Linux gets tested too and at least the latest version doesn't have bugs)... But I still worry about the interactions in a complex userspace application can produce unexpected outcomes. And I wonder whether Linux previously had bugs (too lazy to trace down the git history today), and if there was, how many are still in deployment...