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That wouldn't happen if servers were Macs
by sohn5 14y ago
That wouldn't happen if servers were Macs
- bifrost 14y agoThats relevant how?
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoMac OS X is a BSD variant, so there's every chance.
- daeken 14y agoHow does that follow? OS X runs an odd hybrid kernel (XNU) which is Mach and parts of BSD, but... this is a Linux kernel bug. There's an effectively zero chance of this impacting anything but Linux.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoThe kernel is not the only OS component relying on time that may have not considered this.
- chc 14y agoThis is evidently a kernel bug. The fact that both operating systems rely on time isn't particularly relevant. Could there be time bugs in OS X? Certainly. But it wouldn't be this one. Windows relies on time too, so I don't see why you bring up the fact that OS X is a BSD variant.
- tedunangst 14y agoBSD doesn't have an adjtimex syscall, so it's very unlikely for there to be a spinlock bug in the adjtimex syscall that doesn't exist.
- NelsonMinar 14y agoI watched my Mac OS X 10.7.4 box count backwards this leap second. The time went to 00:00:00, then back to 23:59:59. At least Linux makes the effort to have the seconds never go backwards.