[ntp:hackers] Statsdir behavior

Heiko Gerstung heiko.gerstung at meinberg.de
Wed Dec 21 13:55:53 UTC 2005


David J Taylor wrote:
> Yes, I'm sure that most users want to specify a directory.  All I meant 
> by "add a trailing backslash" was internally within the program.  
> Externally it stays as "C:\temp" but internally, if C:\temp\ exists, the 
> C:\temp is assumed to mean C:\temp\.  The configuration file is not 
> altered.
Oh, I see. Then we fully agree on this :-)

> I don't run UNIX so I don't know how the UNIX variant of NTP interprets 
> X:/tmp versus X:/tmp/.  If there is a pre-defined behaviour, we should 
> check that before doing what I suggest for Windows.  Or perhaps the UNIX 
> variant should behave the same way as I suggest for Windows.  I'm 
> looking for UNIX user comments here.
We are currently testing this under Linux, but I expect that there will 
be a similiar behavior (e.g. when you specify "statsdir /etc" it will 
create a loopstats file as "/etcloopstats.20051220").

> I do basically completely agree that if C:\stats\ exists, and the user 
> only specifies C:\stats, then C:\stats\ should be assumed.
Rrrrright :-)

Kind regards,
Heiko


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