> On 04/08/2023 2:45 PM PDT Hal Murray <halmur...@sonic.net> wrote: > > Given that the things I have been turning in are not in the direction > > we are headed, what should I be working on? Other than trying to do a > > Golang port by myself, or revisiting the more than a-year-old list? > MR 1307 and/or 1309 is high on my list. I was hoping somebody else would be > interested.
Grab a shovel and a Philosopher's Stone. > What's on your year old list? TLDR back in June 2021, I kicked off the previous to-do list by revisiting the in-tree devel/TODO.adoc file [1] and randomly commenting on the points. [2] This led to ESR kicking off the provisional new list with the sole item of porting NTPsec (probably) to Golang [3]. I kicked in my tuppence[4]. * check on the state of C to Rust/Golang transpilers (They sucked) * Archipelligo model but with threads rather than discrete processes to enable per thread seccomp. * Implement a toy that hits all of the (sys)calls used by NTPsec quickly (for seccomp again) * try to break up sizeable opaque code blocks (maybe enabling things like refclockd and testframe) * Testing ** compilers other than GCC/Clang ** kernels other than Linux (token FreeBSD/Darwin) ** other libC implementations, file Hierarchies * Update the docker runners to be better * sort out my miscellaneous merge requests (whatever frippery I think up) with the result primarily being [5] * Port away from C with minor diversions to * Resolve CVEs * close issues to have less than 20 open * More extensive unit-tests * Releases [1] https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/-/blob/master/devel/TODO.adoc [2] https://lists.ntpsec.org/pipermail/devel/2021-June/009761.html [3] https://lists.ntpsec.org/pipermail/devel/2021-June/009775.html [4] https://lists.ntpsec.org/pipermail/devel/2021-June/009779.html [5] https://lists.ntpsec.org/pipermail/devel/2021-June/009798.html > For a small project, I think we should make mode6/ntpq require the cookie on > everything but getting the cookie, and we should make sure that there is no > amplification when getting the cookie. That would break compatibility with ntpq from classic NTP. > How much do you know about Go? Can you write a multi-threaded echo server? > > I have a collection of hacks for measuring performance of NTP servers. Down > hill and with a tailwind, I can get 1,000,000 packets per second. I have C > and Rust versions. It would be neat to try a Go version. I can manage to do that. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
