[ntp:questions] Re: Y2038 bug strikes early

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang+gnus20060801T074103 at dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com
Tue Aug 1 14:51:23 UTC 2006


> From: Conrad Heiney <conrad at fringehead.org>
> Starting on May 12, 2006, many installations of the AOLServer web
> server failed.  Not all versions or all configurations failed, but
> the ones that did became unusable. On start, the server would eat
> virtual memory and then terminate with a memory allocation error.

I would have expected that one server would have failed with an error
message and millions of others followed with the message "ME TOO".

-wolfgang




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