On 12/8/2011 7:37 AM, Bruce Lilly wrote:
> Some code in ntpd applies a dither using ntp_random.  However,
> ntp_random (which is also used elsewhere, e.g. in getting an
> initial association ID) generates only positive integers,
> resulting in a one-sided offset bias.  The following patch
> compensates for this bias by offsetting the return value
> from ntp_random to produce approximately zero mean dither
> in both positive and negative offset directions in the
> functions which use ntp_random for dither.
> 

This belongs in bugzilla http://bugs.ntp.org/ rather than questions/cptn
newsgroup. Please also use diff -u and post that to bugzilla as an
attachment.

Danny
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