<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 2:51 AM, Eric S. Raymond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com" target="_blank">esr@thyrsus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm sorry. I cleaned up the code, but I don't really understand the bug. </blockquote></div><br>:-) Ah, the Knuth defence: Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This is my take on the RS600 issue:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">According to <a href="https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/hints/rs6000">https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/hints/rs6000</a> ,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">the a hack was added to xntp in v2 for AIX 3.1, and that was before "93/12/3" , but this version would not work on older AIX.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">AIX 3.1 was released in Feb 1990 , so the bug was in something older than that.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I suggest that ntpfrob drop support for testing for this bug. I will clean up related docs, and review tests, as well, and submit a PR on Github for review.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">-- <br>Sanjeev Gupta<br>+65 98551208 <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane</a></div></div>
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