New blog draft on the TESTFRAME debacle

[Hal Murray]

> Alas, "say more" is not really actionable advice.  Can you tell me what
> seemed bogus to you?

Using the term PLL.

> MacOS, Windows, and ... damn, I don't remember which BSD it was (not
> FreeBSD).  What the oddballs lack is ntp_adjtime().  They can only step, not
> slew. 

Slewing the clock is not a PLL.  PLL's need feedback.  There is no feedback 
involved in a simple slew.

What's the real problem with step rather than slew?

We should probably start a web page with a matrix of OS vs feature.  It would 
help to know what parts of a feature are important.


> Complexification #1.
> Complexification #2.
> Complexification #3

I didn't get the message from that blog that the problem was that making it 
work was going to involve too many complexities rather than a can't-fix road 
block.  But I probably wasn't looking for it.

How close did you get?

How much could we learn if we had something working to experiment with?


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