On Mon, Jan 18, 2021, at 5:03 PM Gary E. Miller via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:58:11 -0800 > Hal Murray via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote: > > > James said: > > > I think NTPsec should be completely rewritten as discrete units. > > > > What does that mean? > > I think he is referring to reecent proposals to split ntpd up into > multiple daemons. Daemons for the core, NTS, clients, etc. Each doing > a small job. Rather than the one big daemon we have now. > > Sorta like sendmail to postfix. > The permissions required by NTPsec are a mess partly because it is not a do one thing well daemon. Instead, you have the Lernean Hydra, which has too many heads and gaining more. I was writing a long blob on how doing too many things was bloating the list of required permissions, but I decided t scrap it. Also, a rewrite would allow and encourage skipping the problematic parts of singlesock, events, and goprep. > > I'd be happy to split the big header files, ntp.h and ntpd.h, into > > chunks corresponding to a more modular structure. > > It made sense when using floppy disks to make .h files small. BUt > now I find it much easier to have large files. So I dont have to > keep jumping from file to file. > Then why not splat it into a 29ish K bison file and a dozen C files totaling 258ish K. I can't properly wrap my mind around large amounts of code.
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