[ntp:questions] Why can't clocks do inital synchronization?

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.isc.org
Wed Jan 7 04:26:03 UTC 2009


Folkert van Heusden wrote:
>> I don't recall ever seeing a report of NTP causing problems with normal 
>> operations.
> 
> Sorry for being anal on this but:
> Well almost: certain versions of the linux kernel under certain specific
> conditions would panic when ntp introduces a leap second.
> http://markmail.org/message/dhm5byrbfcarpiet?q=leap+second+list:org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
> Ok it's a bug in the linux kernel but it is only triggered by ntp.
> 

I just saw something about this in the NTP WG from the linux kernel
wranglers who seem to be totally confused about NTP. They should fix the
kernel bug and not start talking about TAI.

Danny

> 
> Folkert van Heusden
> 




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