The state of NTPsec as I see it

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sun Jan 22 12:27:52 UTC 2017


esr at thyrsus.com said:
> I've now temporarily abandoned getting rid of sockaddr_u.  The reason from
> this move was to get rid of the last real union construct in the codebase,
> as prep for moving it to Rust or Go.  However, I have learned from an old
> ChangeLog comment that thus would increase the memory footprint of the MRU
> list, so I've decided it to defer it ...

That doesn't agree with my understanding of the code.

There is only one free list.  The struct (mon_entry in ntp.h) ends with a 
sockaddr_u.



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