First step on ntp_control cleanup
James Browning
jamesb192 at jamesb192.com
Thu Feb 2 14:22:12 UTC 2023
On 02/02/2023 1:13 AM PST Hal Murray wrote:
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> ntp_control is the code in ntpd that processes mode6 requests from ntpq.
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> There are 3 types of variables you can read:
> global variables (rv 0)
> peer (server) variables
> refclock variables
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> I've fixed up the first type. It is now easy to add new global variables.
> Most will be a 1 line edit.
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> There is still lots of ugliness to clean up.
>
> Please test, I may have broken a few obscure cases. I fixed a few.
Clock variables seem not to be working. Also
sys_var_list outputs the daemon_version variable.
> I tweaked a few cases of the ntpq printout to indent a few clumps of counters
> that are a subset of the slot above the indented ones. It seems natural to
> me. Feedback?
>
> I'm scheming to cleanup sysstats. Is there anything you have wanted to know
> that it doesn't show?
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