[ntp:hackers] new config parsing code

Brian Utterback brian.utterback at sun.com
Wed Apr 25 12:38:24 PDT 2007


Right. My plan exactly. My comment about not caring about the
simulator is only regarding being a Solaris deliverable. I have
every confidence that the linking problems will be solved, but
they will not prevent my delivering the rest of the binaries.

David L. Mills wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> The simulator is only an interface to the actual daemon and is tightly 
> integrated in the source code. It is enabled at compile time by a 
> confuguration keyword. This is the same case as with the current NTP 
> distribution.
> 
> The simulator tool has been a vital component in the past for debugging 
> things impractical to test in vivo. The actual code between the ifdefs 
> could be removed, but this would raise serious problems in maintenance 
> and support and result in two streams of bugfixes. Better to leave it in 
> and never divulge the enabling configuration keyword.
> 
> Dave
> 
> Brian Utterback wrote:
> 
>> Is the simulator something that I would want to ship to my customers,
>> or something I use to verify and/or diagnose NTP's behavior on a
>> particular OS rev? If so, I might be inclined to pass it around 
>> internally at Sun, but not to ship in to customers. If I am wrong,
>> then help me to understand the customer usage of the simulator.
>>
>>
>> David L. Mills wrote:
>>
>>> Brian,
>>>
>>> So far as I am concenred, the simulator is an integral component in 
>>> the distribution, especially as it has enhanced functionality over the 
>>> previous version. As you say Sun will not include it in their 
>>> distribution, I assume Sun will commit such resources as to maintain a 
>>> separate corporate distibution. In that case, I assume Sun will commit 
>>> such resources to aid in the related development effort.
>>>
>>> You should be reminded that Digital did commit a warm body to aid in 
>>> the development of NTPv3.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> Brian Utterback wrote:
>>>
>>>> Harlan Stenn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Sachin has almost finished the beast.  To our knowledge the last issue
>>>>> that needs to be resolved is a linker problem building ntpdsim.  (There
>>>>> are functions defined in libntp.a that we want to override for ntpdsim
>>>>> by creating copies in a .o file, and the linker is seeing both and
>>>>> complaining instead of using the versions in the .o file and ignoring
>>>>> the later definitions in the .a file.)
>>>>>
>>>>> I can either commit the code now and we work on fixing this linker 
>>>>> issue
>>>>> ASAP, or I can wait until we resolve the link problem before committing
>>>>> the code.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any preferences out there?
>>>>>
>>>>> H
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>>>> I vote for sooner, but I have a vested interest in getting it done 
>>>> soon and have no such
>>>> interest in the simulator since we will not be delivering it.
>>>
>>>
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