ntpdsim status and question

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> > What is the preferred approach?
> 
> I don't see any clean solution.  The tangle with adj_systime and step_systime 
> in libntp is not the worst problem.  If you build with SIM enabled, aside 
> from making a special libntp you also end up with broken versions of several 
> modules in ntpd so you can either build ntpd or ntpsim.
> 
> I'd probably try hacking the waf stuff to skip building anything else if it 
> was building ntpsim.
> 
> If you put SIM into config.h, you can delete libntp/systime_s.c

I somehow missed Tom's query.  But I note that the kind of problem Hal is
pointing at here is very similar to the one the intercept layer solves
for capture/replay.  Maybe that layer should implement a sim mode?
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