Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de>: >> The current code prints out each line as soon as the data is returned from >> the server. Another approach would be to collect it all so we could scan >> the >> column and use the 4th digit if everything would fit. > > I'm not sure what the implication of waiting for all data really is. It > would certainly work for the things I use ntpq for, but that may not be > the case for other folks. What I had in mind was to simply allocate the > available space more intelligently based on what we can know before > statrting to print out the data.
You can't know enough to be "intelligent" before the per-host data arrives. And if you wait for all data, the tool can become painful to use due to DNS stalls. Basically there are no happy answers here. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> Please consider contributing to my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/esr so I can keep the invisible wheels of the Internet turning. Give generously - the civilization you save might be your own. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel