NTS update

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Mar 1 22:07:33 UTC 2019


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> Eric said:
> > Good.  I'm in favor of anything it can do to export more meaningful status
> > information, and this definitely qualifies.
> 
> I assume that includes putting a digit in the t column to show the number of 
> cookies and hence indicate that a slot is using NTS.

Yes.

> There is currently a bug in this area.  It doesn't show 0 when it should.  The 
> test is > 0 rather than >= 0.  The ==0 case screws up on old systems that 
> don't return anything for count.

I'd fix this, but I'm not sure whether you're talking server or client side.
Feel free to do it.

I've revised and updated the documentation, and the website, to reflect the
status of the NTS support.  There's an information-hiding hange I have queued
up to do.
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