Request for design critique - configuration directories

[Achim Gratz]

Eric S. Raymond writes:
> 1. First, ntp.conf in the default location - or wherever it's set by
> the -c option - is parsed.

I very slightly lean in the direction of just ignoring that file
altogether unless explicitly forced to be read via an option.  Note that
the usual start scripts already feed NTP a configuration file different
from the default most of the time in order to splice in the time server
offered via DHCP (but picking up the base file from /etc/ntp.conf).  So
all those mechanics would have to be considered as well if you wanted to
be compatible with classic.

> 4. Here's the tricky part.  Not every file is interpreted by every
> program.  Initially, only files with the extensions ".ntpd" and
> ".refclockd" are interpreted by ntpd. Other files are skipped.

Please no.  If you must, consider doing something like fontconfig
(conf.avail vs. conf.d) and have two directories that are traversed for
ntpd and refclockd, respectively.


Regards,
Achim.
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