[ntp:questions] LOCL clock reachability not 377?

Harlan Stenn stenn at ntp.org
Sat Aug 23 10:05:30 UTC 2014


Rob writes:
> Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org> wrote:
> > Rob,
> >
> > You have seen 'flag1' in the recent ntp-dev SHM driver documentation,
> > right?
> 
> I have installed ntp-dev and as part of that also ntp-dev-doc, but
> it is essentially empty (only an automatically generated changelog).

It's in the source distribution, html/drivers/driver28.html

> There appears to be a package ntp-doc-dev on the site, but I cannot
> install it as my system is 64-bit and the repository cannot be installed
> on it.  I can only install the source repository and apparently the
> doc package is in the binary repository.
> 
> Who still has those i386 systems out there?  Why doesn't ntp-dev
> support 64-bit??

No idea what you mean there - we do 64-bit builds (under linux and other
OSes) all the time.  You might want to check with whoever handles
building packages for your distro.

> Anyway, I checked the ntpd/refclock_shm.c source and I cannot find
> any reference to flag1 in there.  So I'm lost.  What is the magic?

This will be post-4.2.7p462 .  See the shm_control() stuff, which starts
about line 232.

H


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