[ntpsec commit] Add a warning to tickadj.c

Eric S. Raymond esr at ntpsec.org
Sat Oct 3 13:43:08 UTC 2015


Module:    ntpsec
Branch:    master
Commit:    aa07d72ab53754d03192d0639937b79c2c317765
Changeset: http://git.ntpsec.org/ntpsec/commit/?id=aa07d72ab53754d03192d0639937b79c2c317765

Author:    Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com>
Date:      Sat Oct  3 07:11:48 2015 -0400

Add a warning to tickadj.c

---

 docs/tickadj.txt | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/tickadj.txt b/docs/tickadj.txt
index 3a22624..368fc94 100644
--- a/docs/tickadj.txt
+++ b/docs/tickadj.txt
@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ Last update: 16-Sep-2015
 The `tickadj` program reads, and optionally modifies, several
 timekeeping-related variables.  It uses the adjtimex(2) system call.
 
-These tweaks are almost never necessary on hardware new enough
-to have a fully POSIX.1-2001-conformant Unix. This utility exists
-mainly for backward compatibility to old scripts.
+These tweaks are almost never necessary on hardware new enough to have
+a fully POSIX.1-2001-conformant Unix. This utility is deprecated and
+exists mainly for backward compatibility to old scripts. In the future
+it may be removed or merged into a more general tuning tool.
 
 The particular variables that can be changed with `tickadj` include
 `tick`, which is the number of microseconds added to the system time



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