Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:00:30 -0600 | From | "Linas Vepstas" <> | Subject | Re: Bug: Status/Summary of slashdot leap-second crash on new years 2008-2009 |
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Oops.
2009/1/5 Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>: > 2009/1/5 john stultz-lkml <johnstul.lkml@gmail.com>: >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> wrote: >> [snip] >>> The long term solution would be write an RFC to extend >>> NTP to also provide TAI information -- e.g. to add a >>> message that indicates the current leap-second offset >>> between UTC and TAI. >> >> I believe Roman has already added this ability: >> http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=153b5d054ac2d98ea0d86504884326b6777f683d;hp=9f14f669d18477fe3df071e2fa4da36c00acee8e > > Well, you're answering a different statment than what > I was talking about -- I wanted to make sure that TAI > information was available via NTP -- this has nothing > to do with the kernel, and would be something available > to all operating systems. > > Anyway -- I'm looking at the patch you reference, and > maybe I'm being dumb -- but -- I think I see a bug. > > case TIME_DEL decrements TAI, but TIME_INS does > not increment it. Instead, there's a lonely increment in > TIME_OOP which seems wrong. ??
Never mind. Sorry, I'm wrong, the code looks right. Time to stop reading email, and go to bed. :-)
--linas
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