util/monitoring/ntploop{stat,watch}

[Mark Atwood]

Ok, thanks Eric and Hal. Please file a bug against it,  tagging it as
broken, uses Perl, uses Mode 7.  Don't stop work on other stuff on your
plate.

Sanjeev, do you know Python?  Would you like to take a crack at
re-implementing loopstats in Python?

..m


On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 12:24 PM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Mark Atwood <fallenpegasus at gmail.com>:
> > How much effort is it to make it use mode 6?
>
> I haven't scoped the job exactly, but my guess is probably not a whole lot.
> The equivalent mode 6 report, assuming there is one, will be textual and
> probably simpler to parse than the mode 7 report was.
>
> It'll take a rewrite of loopstats, but that was going to happen
> anyway; (a) the mode 7 code is obsolete, and (b) in general I don't
> intend for us to leave any code in Perl, it's too big a maintainance
> problem.
>
> I'd really like to understand the actual *function* of loopstats for an NTP
> admin, though.  Doing this kind of conversion while blind to the actual
> use cases tends to lead to amusing mistakes.
> --
>                 <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
>
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