ntpq peers formatting needs floating point for time slots.

[Achim Gratz]

Eric S. Raymond writes:
> You can't know enough to be "intelligent" before the per-host data
> arrives.

Well, If I know that I'm going to display ten characters wider than
usual, I can add teo digits of extra precision before I widen the space
for the hostname by four digits.  That sort of intelligence.

> And if you wait for all data, the tool can become painful to use due to DNS
> stalls.

Yeah, and if you send those off asynchronously you can just display the
IP address if you don't get an answer in whatever the standard or user
defined timeout is set to.

> Basically there are no happy answers here.

I was only shooting for "better than status quo".


Regards,
Achim.
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