[Git][NTPsec/ntpsec][master] Clarift endinness, remove a bug warning I'm no longer sure of.

[Eric S. Raymond]

Eric S. Raymond pushed to branch master at NTPsec / ntpsec


Commits:
b901d4ac by Eric S. Raymond at 2016-12-13T01:28:07-05:00
Clarift endinness, remove a bug warning I'm no longer sure of.

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1 changed file:

- docs/mode6.txt


Changes:

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docs/mode6.txt
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--- a/docs/mode6.txt
+++ b/docs/mode6.txt
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@ padded to a 4-octet boundary.  Responses may be multiple UDP packets;
 they may arrive out of order, and the client is responsible for
 reassembling the payloads.
 
+All multibyte numeric fields are interpreted as big-endian
+2s-complement integers.
+
 [[varlists]]
 == Variable-Value Lists ==
 
@@ -492,14 +495,6 @@ The cryptographic hash is normally 16 octets of MD5 hash, but if ntpd
 is built with OpenSSL support it is possible to use and generate
 20-octet-long SHA1 keys as well.
 
-== Known bugs ==
-
-The quality of legacy ntpd implementations of this protocol is poor.
-Clients should be prepared for the following quirk:
-
-* In textual varlists, value literals may have spurious trailing NULs
-  which must be stripped.
-
 '''''
 
 include::includes/footer.txt[]



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