ntpfrob: stepback for RS6000

[Eric S. Raymond]

Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0 at gmail.com>:
> ntpfrob has a "-s" mode, to work around "an old AIX bug".
> 
> The documentation says:
> 
> If the problem is fixed, this program will print the time, sit there for 10
> seconds, and exit.  If the problem isn't fixed, the program will print an
> occasional "result=nnnnnn" (the residual slew from adjtime()).
> 
> I ran this on an old i386 box.
> 
> model name    : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
> 
> root at ntpmon:~# uname -a
> Linux ntpmon 4.3.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.3.3-7 (2016-01-19) i686
> GNU/Linux
> root at ntpmon:~# ntpfrob -s
> Starting: Fri Feb 26 20:15:37 2016
> result = 0. -1500  result = 0. -1500  result = 0. -1500  result = 0. -1500
> result = 0. -1500  result = 0. -1500  result = 0. -1500  result = 0. -1500
> result = 0. -1500  root at ntpmon:~#
> 
> (note that there are no \n in the output)
> 
> Can someone help interpret the results?  Is my Linux 4.3 infected with a
> pre-1992 AIX bug?

I'm sorry.  I cleaned up the code, but I don't really understand the bug.  Hal
Murray or Daniel Franke might have more insight.
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