[Python-ideas] Happy leap second

[Nick Coghlan]

It was a kernel race condition (and subsequent live lock) after ntpd
notified the clock subsystem of the coming leap second (
http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-during-a-leap-second)


The joys of fine grained locking :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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Sent from my phone, thus the relative brevity :)
On Jul 2, 2012 5:45 AM, "Antoine Pitrou" <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 21:11:25 +0200
> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > So would "supporting" the leap second in Python have made any difference?
>
> No. These look like system (kernel?) bugs.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
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