Ian Lepore
2019-Feb-05 20:18 UTC
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-19:05.kqueue
On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 13:00 -0700, Alan Somers wrote:> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 12:55 PM Shawn Webb <shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 07:40:30PM +0000, FreeBSD Errata Notices wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > > > ============================================================================> > > FreeBSD-EN-19:05.kqueue Errata Notice > > > The FreeBSD Project > > > > > > Topic: kqueue race condition and kernel panic > > > > > > Category: core > > > Module: kqueue > > > Announced: 2019-01-09 > > > Credits: Mark Johnston > > > Affects: FreeBSD 11.2 > > > Corrected: 2019-11-24 17:11:47 UTC (stable/11, 11.2-STABLE) > > > > Corrected November of 2018 or 2019? ;) > > 2019, of course. re@ does NOT make mistakes. What you fail to > realize is that NIST was using kqueue to check their atomic clock, and > they lost the race. Enjoy the rest of 2020. > -Alan >I think you meant that as a joke, but the reality is that NIST measures their atomic clocks using gear that runs FreeBSD (made by the company I work for). :) -- Ian
Eugene Grosbein
2019-Feb-05 20:46 UTC
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-19:05.kqueue
06.02.2019 3:18, Ian Lepore wrote:>> 2019, of course. re@ does NOT make mistakes. What you fail to >> realize is that NIST was using kqueue to check their atomic clock, and >> they lost the race. Enjoy the rest of 2020. >> -Alan >> > > I think you meant that as a joke, but the reality is that NIST measures > their atomic clocks using gear that runs FreeBSD (made by the company I > work for). :)I do not know if it is related or not: some months ago my FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE box having GPS received attached at /dev/cuau0 for my local ntpd stratum 1 server went to late of 2020 insanely. I was forced to comment GPS out of ntpd config to revive it but I lost all data in hundreds of local RRD databases and I found a race in libarchive being a reason why my backups had not most part of databases. I still do not know exact reason and use Internet time source instead of local GPS.