Yo Eric! On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 00:02:38 -0400 "Eric S. Raymond" <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Gary E. Miller <g...@rellim.com>:
> > So, a shared memory driver for ntpd?
>
> It already has one.
Not a POSIX sharde memory one. And the exsting one has serious
problems.
> I think the one it has would be as good as we
> need if not for the fact that that version of SHM is obsolete and
> unstandardized.
Say what? The existing protocol has serious problems.
> > > I don't think either is going to match the performance of a
> > > shared-memory drop.
> >
> > So, we all vote for JSON in POSIX SHM?
>
> I don't. I think this is one of the very rare cases where passing a
> C struct as a binary blob makes sense. We want to minimize offset
> and jitter and there's no cross-architecture problem.
Oh, please not! That is one of the big problems in the existing driver.
Way too compiler, CPU and OS dependent. Plus not extensible. The
exsting C struct has been nothing but problems. Maybe you don't buy into
JSON, but the C struct is a non-starter.
RGDS
GARY
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