[ntp:hackers] [gsoc]student applying for idea "Implement adjfreq()"

Harlan Stenn stenn at ntp.org
Tue Mar 20 11:01:15 UTC 2012


Hi Woody,

Woody wrote:
> I'm a graduate student studying on Electrical information and
> engineering.  I've have 4 years of C programming experience and have a
> basic acknowledgement of Linux timing management.  As ntp is network
> related, I'm also familiar with the network programming and have been
> implementing dns protocol on a Linux-based OS.
> 
> I have great interest in the kernel and I would like to implement
> adjfreq() function. And I'm going to search more info for this idea,
> and anaylise the linux source code of the related functions.

You might want to also look at FreeBSD's ntp_adjtime() implmentation.

You've probably also seen the responses from other folks.

> I would like to contribute to NTP orgnization and make it better.

That would be great.

> Please let me know if I can contribute more to NTP.

Absolutely, happy to have you and I'll help as much as I can.

Have you worked on open source before?

H


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