Subject: Re: kern/30815: ntpd refclockio broken wrt/ SIGIO
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From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/24/2005 23:45:02
The following reply was made to PR kern/30815; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: kern/30815: ntpd refclockio broken wrt/ SIGIO
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:44:37 -0400
On Jul 23, 1:30pm, kardel@acm.org (kardel@acm.org) wrote:
-- Subject: kern/30815: ntpd refclockio broken wrt/ SIGIO
| The recent relaxation to allow SIGIO on tty descriptors without
| requiring TIOCSCTTY is incomplete. Current version 1.9 of
| usr.sbin/ntp/include/config.h has USE_FSETOWNCTTY commented out.
| So ntpd doesn't aquire a CTTY. Fact is that currently TTY input
| does not cause a SIGIO to be delivered in this setup.
| ntpd pretends to run because of network SIGIOs, but ntpd is
| unable to actually use a tty refclock as input on a TTY as
| input is batched in intervals of network caused SIGIOs.
|
| So, currently ntpd refclock support is broken.
Does the code set FIOASYNC?
christos