There is still the threaded DNS lookup bug that Hal discovered, and his proposed new threaded DNS design.
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 2:11 PM Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote: > Gary E. Miller <g...@rellim.com>: > > > 3. The JSON refclock is a mess that has never worked quite right, > > > without a clear purpose in life. I'd prefer to drop it, unless > > > somebody steps up to fix it. > > > > I could be wildly wrong, but I think that some systems like > > MacOS do not support shared memory, required for SHM(). The > > JSON driver is way to get PPS+gpsd+ntpd running on MacOS. And > > other OS that also fail to have /dev/shm. > > > > If I were to fix it, I would rip out almost all the options and > > drop it back to basics. Then get it working on MacOS at a minimum. > > > > If that works for you, it should probably get a new name and driver > > number to avoid confustion. > > There aren't any driver numbers any more. OK, I fib slightly; there's > a table deep in the guts of ntpd that gets indexed by the driver number > when you use the old refclock syntax. This is for backwards > compatibiility, > otherwise they're gone. > > OK, strip it and fix it. We'll worry about the namespace issue once > we know what you had to throw overboard. > -- > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@ntpsec.org > http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
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