Joseph Gwinn wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Danny Mayer) wrote: > >> Joseph Gwinn wrote: >> >>>>> The FAQ has to be the place for such explanations. >>>> I'm not sure if this qualifies as an FAQ as I don't recall that it has >>>> come up before. FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions. >>> RAQ then? Rarely Asked Questions >>> >>> Seriously, I can't believe that I'm the only person in history to be >>> perplexed by these status codes, and those little three-word summaries >>> are a bit telegraphic. >>> >>> Joe Gwinn >>> >> You aren't the only one. These questions have been asked before by a >> number of people. In fact I had to look at this at one point when I was >> getting these codes. Of course I just looked at the source code and >> never looked for documentation. > > My fundamental point is that expecting a significant part of the NTP > user base to read the code simply does not scale, for a host of reasons. > > >> I will tell you that this is a combination of bits so it's not just a >> number. Each bit represents a test code that failed so you have quite a >> bit to look at. > > Just for curiosity, how many semicolons are there in the NTPv3 and NTPv4 > codebases? My impression is that each is about 20,000 or 30,000, but I > don't know why or where I got the number. > > Joe Gwinn
I once did a "line count" of the entire NTP codebase. 70,000 lines! _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
