Proposal - drop the GPSD JSON driver

Mark Atwood fallenpegasus at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 21:00:24 UTC 2016


Hi!

I've been following this discussion.

We should remove the GPSD JSON driver from NTPsec.

It is an attractive nuisance.  The SHM driver, possibly with improvements,
is a better interface between NTPsec and GPSD.

..m

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 2:53 PM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> >
> > esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > >> Yes, I've been thinking about mechanisms for this.  They're all rather
> > >> irrelevant.
> > > Argh.  I meant "inelegant".
> >
> > I assume that using a pipe or socket rather than SHM would fix that.
>
> Probably, but then we run unto buffering jitter again.
>
> You're right, we need to build some test jigs and measure this stuff.
>
> I'll make a publishable white paper out of it.
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