[ntp:questions] Any chance of getting bugs 2164 and 1577 moving?
David J Taylor
david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid
Tue Mar 20 15:35:13 UTC 2012
> It seems that the types of different variables are stored in a
> table, and "offset" has type FL. Latter on, there is a block of
> code like this:
>
> case FL:
> output(fp, name,
> lfptoms(&lfp, 3));
> break;
> case FU:
> output(fp, name,
> ulfptoms(&lfp,
> 3));
> break;
> case FS:
> output(fp, name,
> lfptoms(&lfp, 3));
> break;
>
> Here, the lfptoms()/ulfptoms() functions convert NTP's internal
> fixed point format into a string. I think that the 3 is the number
> of significant figures. You can change these, but it seems that
> the control messages are such that they only have 3 significant
> figures included in them.
>
> David.
Thanks, David. Those don't seem to be in ntpq.c (at least 4.2.7p134), so
no wonder I couldn't find them. But if the control messages are limited
to microseconds, this problem is deeper than I first thought. I suppose
that's saving on bandwidth by a few bytes?
Cheers,
David T
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