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Unix/Linux 网络时间协议版本3 Network Time Protocol Version 3 (NTP) distribution for Unix systems

Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:22:05 +0100
From:  Jon Peatfield <[e-mail]>
To: Harlan Stenn <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: xntp3-5.85 
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Very minor buglett in the driftfile handling, if I have an empty (zero length) 
driftfile when xntpd starts up I get a logged message:

  drift value @w^??^Y invalid

It might be simpler to just use fscanf "%g" rather than reading a string with 
%s (which will happily return a zero length string), and then using atolfp on 
it...

Also despite being listed in the comment at the top of xntpd/ntp_config.c as a 
valid keyword, "authdelay" isn't recognised and it logs:

  configure: keyword "authdelay" unknown, line ignored

Mind you my config file was so old that it still had references to "monitor 
yes" and "xntpres...".

I've packaged up the changes I needed to make it compile under Linux in case 
anyone else wants them (I cheated on the kernel_pll by just creating a 
config.cache with that value off so it never does the test).  It may be 
helpful to anyone else wanting to build under Linux 'til a new patch comes 
out...

  ftp://ftp.damtp.cam.ac.uk/pub/linux/xntp3-5.85/

There are also binary and source versions in RPM format in case anyone is 
interested.

 -- Jon