[ntp:hackers] Patches to reinstate rank variable and add end keyword.

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Aug 6 20:41:00 UTC 2005


In message <20050806194817.3DB2813921 at sa.vix.com>, Paul Vixie writes:
># In my opinion we should do it. It would resolve (no pun intended) a lot of
># problems we currently have in NTP. The only issue that I would bring up is
># the fact that this code uses timers and ntp fiddles with the clock. Would
># this cause any problems with the eventlib code?
>
>i don't think so.  phk would have the answer i'd consider authoritative though.

I added support in the eventlib code to work on the CLOCK_MONOTONIC scale.

That solved any issue I might have had.

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