[ntpsec commit] Update TODO, some things have gotten done.

Eric S. Raymond esr at ntpsec.org
Tue Oct 13 12:22:15 UTC 2015


Module:    ntpsec
Branch:    master
Commit:    0842800ce5529bc8cf865057e9c232522081e475
Changeset: http://git.ntpsec.org/ntpsec/commit/?id=0842800ce5529bc8cf865057e9c232522081e475

Author:    Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com>
Date:      Tue Oct 13 08:22:07 2015 -0400

Update TODO, some things have gotten done.

---

 devel-docs/TODO | 11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/devel-docs/TODO b/devel-docs/TODO
index 92ac20e..8f4a107 100644
--- a/devel-docs/TODO
+++ b/devel-docs/TODO
@@ -47,15 +47,12 @@ None right now. (Sep-22 2015)
 
 === Code ===
 
-* Clock stepping should use ANSI clock_settime() when possible, for
-  the additional precision.
-
 * We should audit scripts/ and utils/ to see which of those programs
   can be thrown out (some, like util/kern.c, don't even build).  Some
   (such as ntptrace) need to be translated into Python and supported.
 
 * We need a build time option to disable all dangerous operations
-  that ntpq can produce.
+  that ntpq can produce.  First we need to enumerate them.
 
 * systime.c needs patching to put ntpdsim's hook back in place.
 
@@ -66,8 +63,7 @@ None right now. (Sep-22 2015)
 
 === Porting ===
 
-* The ntpd initialization sequence is still full of platform-
-specific crud.
+* The ntpd initialization sequence is still full of platform-specific crud.
 
 ** We might be able to eliminate a lot of the Linux runtime
 droproot code by using file capabilities.
@@ -95,9 +91,6 @@ on most platforms.
 * We need to live-test leap seconds, both getting them from
 a file and getting them from other NTP servers.
 
-* Option testing.  The new, non-autogen option-processing logic
-is not yet tested anywhere but in ntpd itself.
-
 * The script tests in scripts/t should be investigated, perhaps
   they are salvageable.
 



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