[ntp:questions] ntpd code
Kemal Oral CANSIZLAR
ocansizlar at comcast.net
Wed Mar 23 16:46:49 UTC 2005
Hi, Thanks for reply,
<mayer at gis.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.48.1111595272.588.questions at lists.ntp.isc.org...
> ----- Original Message Follows -----
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to modify some portion of NTP source code to maintain a
>> high resolution, precise (as far as NTP goes) logical clock instead
>> of modifying the system clock of the user (as it may not have
>> necessary privileges doing so)... You can view it as intercepting the
>> system calls from NTP to manipulate a software clock; I am not sure
>> how successful it would be... The development and testing environment
>> is strictly Windows...
>>
>
> I'm not sure I understand this at all. Why wouldn't you be running this
> as a service with the right privileges? If you want to intercept
> system calls you probably need privileges anyway (I haven't looked at
> the code to verify this). ntpd IS a high resolution precise logical
> clock
> already. What is it that you are trying to achieve?
>
OK, What I am trying to do is to prevent updating the SYSTEM clock, but
instead updating an APPLICATION level clock (nothing but a 64 bit variable).
My aim is to collect event data from various users using the application I
am developing, so I will need a way to synchronize the event timestamps to
reflect almost exact times the events occured. But users may not have the
privilege to update the system clock in their machines, so I am simulating
that through manipulating a high level clock. I am not defending this is the
best way to do, but I really couldnot think of any other way doing so. Any
comments are welcomed and highly appreciated!
>> I have observed two points in the source code by now...
>>
>> Is there a reason for the latest 4.2.0 version not using ClockThread
>> (in nt_clockstuff.c) for clock interpolation (high resolution clock
>> read)? I couldnot find a place calling StartClockThread()...
>>
>> Also, I believe developers/maintainers are already aware, but I am
>> guessing at method service_exit() in ntpd.c source file, the IF logic
>> should read
>>
>> (!debug && NoWinService == FALSE)
>>
>> otherwise, it would result in error if we were to start the ntpd so as
>> not to run as a Windows service.
>>
>
> You appear to be looking at a rather old version of the source code.
> You should get the latest snapshot and use that. StartClockThread()
> is in ntclockstuff.c and that logical statement is in ntservice.c in
> service_exit. It's not in ntpd.c. The condition is: if (!foreground)
> rather than the above.
>
Oh, I actually downloaded the source code from
http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Main/SoftwareDownloads
There says the latest (stable?) version is 4.2.0 as of 2003/10/15. I would
appreciate if you could give me a link to the latest code. However,
stability is also important in my case...
Thank you!
> Danny
>> Regards,
>>
>> -Kemal.
>>
>>
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