Odds and ends

[Mark Atwood]

I like the "two sets of counters" idea.

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 10:18 PM Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>
wrote:

>
> [if (0) on debugging msyslog]
> > What I do is delete them unless I think they might have continuing
> value, in
> > which case I put them under DPRINTF.
>
> I agree on the "continuing value" part.
>
> For what I'm after, msyslog is more convenient that DPRINTF.  I'm willing
> to
> do an edit/build/restart cycle to get the printout I need.  For now, I'll
> try
> my "if (0)" hack.  If anybody thinks that's too ugly we can discuss
> alternatives.
>
> >> 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?
>
> I don't have any strong opinions in that area.  That's a particularly ugly
> example.  I ran into a few ugly ones when working on the CMAC
> authentication.
>  It seems like something we could do better.
>
> [*CAST stuff in ntpd code]
> > I agree with moving them to ntpclients.  Anything  that reeduces the
> amount
> > of ceuft ubthe ntpd code is good.
>
> I didn't find any usage in ntpclients so there probably isn't any need to
> move them.  We should concentrate on removing code from ntpd.
>
> If we find things like "if (xxx->flags & MCAST)" but there is no way that
> the
> flag ever gets set, then we can just remove the code.
>
> [counters that get reset every hour after writing to log file]
> > Reasonable. Would you make ntpq parse the logfile?
>
> No, that's ugly and only works if you are on the system with the log files.
>
> I was thinking of having ntpd maintain 2 sets of counters.  The new set is
> parallel to the current set.  It gets updated when the current set is
> cleared.  When ntpq asks, ntpd would return both values.
>
> [ntpq -p showing authenticated slots]
> > No need. Just boldface the ones with authentication.
>
> I like it.  What happens if I cut/paste into email?
>
>
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