[ntp:hackers] CERT advisory

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Thu Oct 2 10:57:59 PDT 2003


Brian,

Err, umm. I'm not going to touch this one. Bitbeeper and I are not
comfortable with each other, so I stay out of the loop. Harlan has lots
of magic tools and knows how to repair these things.

Dave

Dave

Brian Utterback wrote:
> 
> David L. Mills wrote:
> 
> >As verified previously for Solaris (mort and whimsy), I verified for
> >SunOS (grundoon) a step change causes timer catatonia. This is a killer
> >problem and I'm not sure what to do about it. I think the ball is in
> >Brian's court, since his timer system reset seems to be involved.
> >
> >
> I submitted a bug and a patch for this two days ago. Bug 203 in
> bugzilla.ntp.org.  There was a typo in the section that deals with Linux
> which of necessity I was unable to test which was caught by Fred
> Bruckman, who issued a new patch.
> 
> I contacted Harlenn a week or two ago, because I got spoiled two months
> ago when my patches were integrated on the same day they were submitted,
> but since August nothing new I have submitted has been integrated. He
> told me that this was due to the Bolt and to the cycles he was devoting
> to the Roll-out.
> 
> I have been content to wait, but this has led to version skew. Fred's
> patch will not install on my REPO because he also has submitted changes
> that have not been integrated and the common anscestor of both is
> somewhere in the PreCambrian.  I have absolutely no idea how to resolve
> this or any other conflicts with bitkeeper.  Anytime BK hiccups I
> usually end up deleteing the whole tree and checking it out again.
> 
> So, I am thinking that perhaps I am out of the loop somehow processwise.
> Am I missing something that I should be doing to get this all going
> again?  Is there anyway to pick up the changesets before they have been
> integrated?  Will Batman and Robin escape from this diabolical trap?
> Tune in same BatTime (assuming NTP has set it for you) and same
> BatChannel next week for the thrilling conclusion.
> 
> blu



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