[ntp:questions] Re: ACTS - too many recvbufs allocated (40) (Correct the Version of ntp-dev)

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Tue Feb 8 04:00:17 UTC 2005


Giuseppe,

Can you spot me on the gtraw() and gtlin() routines in ntp_refclock.c? 
That's a nasty bit of code and it's easy to make bugs.

Dave

Giuseppe wrote:
> David,
> I've verified the sscanf call in refclock_acts.c and I can confirm you
> that it is rigth for the PTB string format, so the problem is not in
> the string parsing.
> 
> Giuseppe
> 
> 
> "David L. Mills" <mills at udel.edu> wrote in message news:<cu0alc$f6k$1 at dewey.udel.edu>...
> 
>>Giuseppe,
>>
>>I've heard mixed reports. In the recent integration of USNO/NIST/PTB 
>>driver, the USNO and NIST formats were rigorously verified, but I could 
>>not verify the PTB format. I have heard at least one report that it 
>>works, then I hear your report that it doesn't. This is not hard to fix, 
>>but I can't do that from here. Someone needs to look at the sscanf call 
>>in the driver and compare with the PTB string actually received. The 
>>rcvbuf situation should have nothing to do with a possible format 
>>decoding bug.
>>
>>Dave
>>



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