[time-nuts] Leap seconds and POSIX

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <p06240823c582ce020dbf@[192.168.1.212]>, Joe Gwinn writes:

>Not that many average users will notice, so long as nothing crashes 
>or hangs.

If the above statement reflects the POSIX attitude to operating
system quality and reliability, then I understand, for the first
time, how POSIX can contain so many mistakes, omissions and bad
ideas usually terribly executed.

Poul-Henning

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