REFCLOCK rises again

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Mon Mar 4 10:34:46 UTC 2019


Eric said:
>> I don't understand.  All I was trying to say is that splitting
>> out the refclock drivers to another process shouldn't make
>> any difference that is easily visible.

> Maybe. The devil is in the details.
> I expect some issues around Mode 6.  We'd still need to exchange control
> packets with it to query and set clock variables. 

That's one of the details I'm willing to overlook.  I want ntpq -p to look the 
same.

What sort of details do you want to examine or change?

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>> How do we get 2 processes to read the same data?
> We don't. Why do you expect to need this? 

We need to be able to run gpsmon while it is feeding data to ntpd.  Replace 
gps with your favorite refclock.



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