MODE_BCLIENT

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Thu Dec 8 21:55:44 UTC 2016


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> I think you are automagically generating pylib/magic.py

Correct.

> I commented out MODE_BCLIENT in ntp.h as it's no longer used in ntpd or the c 
> libraries after I removed a layer of code no longer used by broadcastclient 
> and multicastclient.
> 
> You added some code in util.py that references it to print out a "b" in the t 
> column for broadcast clients.
> 
> Should I remove that code (2 lines) since our code no longer generates that 
> case, or restore my fix to ntp.h in case somebody points our ntpq at classic 
> clients?

Remove it.  I'm in some doubt that operators even notice the 'b' code,
let alone ever act on it.
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