On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Daniel Ouellet <dan...@presscom.net> wrote:
> In trying the latest snapshots on sparc64 servers, so far 3 of them all give
> me the same errors. I can't use the -n flag anymore with rdate as before.
>
> It worked on 4.7 and before. Not sure of the exact date it stop working.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
Probably an aligment problem.
Try this patch:
Index: ntp.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/rdate/ntp.c,v
retrieving revision 1.29
diff -u -r1.29 ntp.c
--- ntp.c 17 Sep 2006 17:03:56 -0000 1.29
+++ ntp.c 15 Aug 2010 07:12:11 -0000
@@ -305,7 +305,8 @@
int
read_packet(int fd, struct ntp_data *data, double *off, double *error)
{
- u_char receive[NTP_PACKET_MAX];
+ u_int64_t receivebuf[howmany(NTP_PACKET_MAX, sizeof(u_int64_t))];
+ u_char *receive = (u_char *)receivebuf;;
struct timeval tv;
double x, y;
int length, r;
--
Matthieu Herrb
