[ntp:questions] Re: Tinker and tos configuration commands....
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Mon Feb 7 21:23:10 UTC 2005
At 8:56 PM +0000 2005-02-07, brad at shub-internet.org wrote:
> I know we're talking about floating point math, in which nothing is ever
> exact. However, what I'm saying here is that I think we want to give
> ourselves the best possible chance to be able to detect when we are
> absolutely within the limits, and then take other action (as appropriate)
> when we reach or exceed the limits.
In this particular case, I believe that changing these
comparisons to strict less-than and greater-than will allow us to
detect a drift file that has been pegged at 500, and to do the
appropriate thing with that -- toss it and recalculate.
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