Odds and ends

[Mark Atwood]

>> The code for freeing up key strings zeros them out first.  How do we do
that in python or go?
> Same way you would in C, iterate over them writing zeros.  Am I missing
something?

I may be not understanding something.
I thought that strings were non-mutatable in Python, and every time one is
written to, the interpreter actually allocates a new string and eventually
GCs the old value.

..m


On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 4:35 AM Eric S. Raymond via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>
wrote:

> Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> > I occasionally add msyslog lines when debugging.  The DPRINTF stuff
> isn't
> > interesting - too much junk I don't want.  When I'm cleaning up, should
> I
> > disable them with "if (0)", or delete them?  Is there a better way? ...
>
> What I do is delete them unless I think they might have continuing value,
> in which case I put them under DPRINTF.
>
> > Some/many of the prototypes in our header files are not very useful.  I
> think the problem is the lack of names on the parameters.  If the types are
> all different, that's enough, but if there are several integer parameters
> that doesn't help.  Here is an example:
> > extern  int     clocktime       (int, int, int, int, int, time_t,
> uint32_t, uint32_t *, uint32_t *);
>
> Fair point.  Are you advocating outting the formal names back in?
>
> > There is still some broadcast/multicast stuff around.  grep for CAST
> will find them.  Should we leave enough around so that our ntpq can decode
> things when talking to old servers?  If so, I vote we move them to
> ntpclients/
>
> I agree with moving them to ntpclients.  Anything  that reeduces the
> amount of
> ceuft ubthe ntpd code is good.
>
> > Some of the counters that ntpq can display get written to a log file
> every hour.  That resets the counters so ntpq can only see what has
> happened since then rather than the totals since startup.  We should
> probably maintain and display both.
>
> Reasonable. Would you make ntpq parse the logfile?
>
> > It would be nice if ntpq would show something if a server is using
> authentication.  I'd be willing to steal a character from the name column.
>
> No need. Just boldface the ones with authentication.
>
> > The code for freeing up key strings zeros them out first.  How do we do
> that in python or go?
>
> Same way you would in C, iterate over them writing zeros.  Am I
> missing something?
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