[ntp:hackers] order of parsing config file vs processing it (refclock: server vs fudge)
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Fri Jan 14 03:39:06 UTC 2011
In the old days, the processing code for each line in the config file was
processed as soon as it was parsed. In particular, if you wanted options for
opening the serial port (say baud rate), you had to put them in the mode
parameter on the server line rather than using a flag in the fudge command
because the open was done before the fudge line was parsed.
A while ago, the config file parser was cleaned up. Does the current code
parse the fudge line before it calls the refclock init subroutine? If nobody
knows, I'll add some hack printout to a handy test case.
Alternatively, how hard would it be to allow the flags stuff (and maybe
others) from the fudge line to be put on the server line?
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