First version of internals tour committed
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Dec 4 13:26:01 UTC 2015
There is a new document, devel/tour.txt, describing the internals of NTP
at a level above in-code comments. This is a serious effort to shine light
into murky corners and improve the maintainability of the code.
Please read it, and add to it where you can. When you find a "gotcha"
that is not easily described in a comment attached to a single oiece
of code, the tour document is where to put it.
I started this as part of preparing for the hard part of TESTFRAME.
I am very close to having capture mode done now. The only remaining
problem is that the recvbuf structure passed to the protocol engine
for each completed packet is a fscking mess. It has two different
source address fields! One of them embedded in an untagged union. I
need to unscramble all that before I can write the last capture method
and start on replay.
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