[ntp:hackers] kern_ntptime and FreeBSD 6.1
David L. Mills
mills at udel.edu
Thu Jan 18 12:25:08 PST 2007
Warner,
Your attachment was eaten by our virus filters.
I wrote the original ntptime some years ago, but apparently busy fingers
have hideously transformed it. I wrote the kernel code as well, but
others might have broken that. As per spec in the timex.h header file,
the NTP kernel code does not return a negative number, except possibly
in case of root violation or copyin/copyout problem. As specified in the
timex.h header file, it returns an integer 0 - 5 rpresenting the leap
condition, with 5 reserved for error.
The error return of 5 was purposely chosen to be non-negative, as the
intended action is to inspect the status word returned by the call. This
leaves room for the operating system to intercede with one of its own
codes. Therefore, a negatie return indicates a kernel problem, not a NTP
problem.
Dave
M. Warner Losh wrote:
> btw, it looks like opensolaris returns -1 on fault conditions and much
> of the ntp code assumes that < 0 is an error... The enclosed patch
> will fix that.
>
> Warner
>
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