* Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> [2012-03-04 21:46]: > Henning Brauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > A brief skim of the source (4.6p1) suggests that OpenNTPd passes on > > > > well, 4.6 is ancient. unfortunately nobody maintains the portable atm. > > The problem is that OpenNTPd stopped being portable when it started > assuming that it could retrieve the adjtime() time delta as a normal > user. There was a corresponding kernel change in OpenBSD. FreeBSD > eventually got this too, sort of by accident, and I don't know if > Linux has it, but this is not generally available.
yes, this has to be emulated/worked around by the portable. > adjfreq() is also not portable but can be easily mapped to > ntp_adjtime(), which just about any Unix other than OpenBSD has. same here, as easy as it is. -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services. Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
