Hal Murray via devel <devel@ntpsec.org>:
>
> > I have run tests removing the fuzz code. Never found any change with or
> > without the clock fuzz. I was too scared to remove it.
>
> It's scattered all over the place so I'm impressed if you really removed it
> all.
>
> The code that I was looking at in ntp_packetstamp had a run time test.
> if (sys_tick > measured_tick && sys_tick > S_PER_NS) {
> and sys_tick == measured_tick on one sample system so the next few lines were
> never executed.
>
> If Eric and Mark agree that we don't need to support big tick OSes, I'll look
> harder at trying to figure out what it does to see if there is anything
> useful we need to save.
I think it is likely we don't need to support those. But I'd be terrified
of yanking that code without some pretty xareful research and review. Not
a pre-1.0 thing.
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