SO_TIMESTAMP may go away

Daniel Franke dfoxfranke at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 14:44:46 UTC 2019


On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:25 AM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:
> The NTP packet-stamp code dates from the before time, when sampling lag
> due to timeslice granularity was an order of magnitude or more worse
> than it is now.  From some of its details I'd guess it was written about
> '87 or '88.

I just checked some old versions, and the string "SO_TIMESTAMP" only
appears in 4.2.4 and beyond, dating to 2006.


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