New blog draft on the TESTFRAME debacle

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 12:40:45AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> > 
> > I don't understand your section about the PLL.  I think it's tangled up in 
> > some bogus terminology.  If you say a bit more, I'll try to sort things out.
> 
> Alas, "say more" is not really actionable advice.  Can you tell me
> what seemed bogus to you?
> 
> > What OSes are the odd-balls?  What makes them odd?  Is this just a different 
> > API to the kernel that turns into significantly different paths through ntpd?
> 
> 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.

I think you're talking about OpenBSD. But their adjtime() probably
does something that might be close to what you want but probably not
exactly. As far as I know it behaves different than all the
other OSs.


Kurt