On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 12:40:45AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net>: > > > > I don't understand your section about the PLL. I think it's tangled up in > > some bogus terminology. If you say a bit more, I'll try to sort things out. > > Alas, "say more" is not really actionable advice. Can you tell me > what seemed bogus to you? > > > What OSes are the odd-balls? What makes them odd? Is this just a > > different > > API to the kernel that turns into significantly different paths through > > ntpd? > > MacOS, Windows, and ... damn, I don't remember which BSD it was (not > FreeBSD). What the oddballs lack is ntp_adjtime(). They can only step, > not slew.
I think you're talking about OpenBSD. But their adjtime() probably does something that might be close to what you want but probably not exactly. As far as I know it behaves different than all the other OSs. Kurt _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel