libsodium mess

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Thu Jan 19 22:32:06 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> > At first glance this seems reasonable, but my experience with the GR-601W
> > suggests otherwise.  My experience with the GR-601W shows that ntpd can find
> > a timing edge and hold onto it very well. 
> 
> The fuzz we are talking about has nothing to do with where the time comes 
> from.  It's the precision slot in ntpq rv 0
> 
> I think it's left over from the old days when the clock was update on the 
> scheduler interrupts.  With the current code, it's how fast you can read the 
> clock.

That's what I think I see, too.
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