Yo Hal! On Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:25:52 -0800 Hal Murray via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> Gary said:
> >> What would ntpd need root for?
> > SHM(0) and SHM(1).
>
> That would mean that you would have to restart ntpd to add SHM
> drivers.
>
> Or, we could fix SHM so the client side is read-only.
As Eric has said: Changing the SHM protocol is not an option.
An that would not help as SHM(0) and SHM(1) are only readable by root.
If you want to reinvent SHM, then we need to do it alongside the old
SHM. Not instead of.
RGDS
GARY
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