Re: [PATCH RFC V2 3/6] time: keep track of the pending utc/taithreshold

From: Richard Cochran
Date: Sat May 26 2012 - 11:08:14 EST


On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 08:57:28AM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 08:43:40AM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> > BTW you can use the program I have been using to test this at
> >
> > git://github.com/richardcochran/leap.git
>
> That program exposes another leap second bug, too, I think. It reads
> the time via adjtimex in a tight loop, optionally sleeping using
>
> clock_nanosleep(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, 0, &ts, NULL);
>
> The program does not wake from this call during a leap second. It is
> my expectation that CLOCK_MONOTONIC should always work. Why doesn't
> it?

FWIW, the V1 of this patch series fixes this problem, but V2 doesn't.

Maybe that fact promotes my original idea?

Thanks,
Richard
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