Refclocks and formatting

[Eric S. Raymond]

Ian Bruene <ianbruene at gmail.com>:
> >If you want to clean this up, go right ahead.  I think it would be a
> >good way for you to get your fingers into the C code, with a simple
> >excision.
> 
> I'll take a look at it, in /theory/ it should be an easy swap.

I'm now investigating a complication, alas.  Turns out that
the C statustoa handles one set of #defines that isn't in control.py;
the PLL* things for the system status word.  This matters if the status
type is TYPE_SYS, not TYPE_PEER or TYPE_CLOCK.

This doesn't matter in the ntpmon case, it only wants a peer or clock status.
The printvars commands in ntpq are what use TYPE_SYS.

Ugh.  I didn't know this before because I hadn't gotten around to actually
trying to ditch the C statustoa.  It's still possible you might be able to get
rid of it, but it is unlikely to be simple.
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