Subject: Re: new TIODCDTIMESTAMP patch
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/20/1998 16:52:12
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:56:41 -0700 (PDT)
Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> Yes, so it does. But that's the API that xntpd expects.
It's still a bug.
At the very least, you can initialize the timestamp to zero so that
there's less of a chance that it will be random garbage.
The API still sucks, and I don't generally excuse bad APIs because the're
"defacto". (C.f. the sockcred stuff I implemented; BSDI has a similar
interface, but it was ... lacking in many ways... needless to say,
I implemented ours differently.)
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