Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Y2K bug found in Linux kernel 2.2.12 (Red Hat 6.1) | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2000 02:11:29 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Subject: Stock Market Report for Sun Feb 13 1910
And the stock subject came from your software too. It looks liek something output '19100' and your script got bitten by the 1 character shift. I've seen that sort of bug in a lot of perl
> 2. This is not an application level or library bug. I now have > files on my system with dates set by the system to Feb 13, 1910.
Interesting. The data is coming from the kernel but is caused by someone misinterpreting a string and printing 19100, it looks like an application perhaps APMD ? on your machine shifted the clock erroneously and the rest of the system is behaving fine around it
> Hmm... it just occurred to me that both of the bugged systems have > an AMD processor - the "Pentium" is actually an AMD K6 and the "486" > has an Evergreen processor upgrade, which is reported by /proc/cpuinfo > as an "AuthenticAMD Am5x86-WT". Coincidence?
I think so. It looks to me like an application screwed up and changed the system clock. We don;t do the right things in kernel to cause the '19100' bug
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