Ok, thanks Eric and Hal. Please file a bug against it, tagging it as broken, uses Perl, uses Mode 7. Don't stop work on other stuff on your plate.
Sanjeev, do you know Python? Would you like to take a crack at re-implementing loopstats in Python? ..m On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 12:24 PM Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote: > Mark Atwood <fallenpega...@gmail.com>: > > How much effort is it to make it use mode 6? > > I haven't scoped the job exactly, but my guess is probably not a whole lot. > The equivalent mode 6 report, assuming there is one, will be textual and > probably simpler to parse than the mode 7 report was. > > It'll take a rewrite of loopstats, but that was going to happen > anyway; (a) the mode 7 code is obsolete, and (b) in general I don't > intend for us to leave any code in Perl, it's too big a maintainance > problem. > > I'd really like to understand the actual *function* of loopstats for an NTP > admin, though. Doing this kind of conversion while blind to the actual > use cases tends to lead to amusing mistakes. > -- > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> >
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