Re: Stratum one autonomy and assumptions about GPS

2016-08-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > e...@thyrsus.com said: > > One of my agenda items for a while has been to develop a protocol for places > > that want to firewall out NTP for security reasons - that is, a set of > > practices and error estimates based on documented assumptions. > > Background data is good. I t

Re: Possible cleanup

2016-08-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > There is a SAVE_ERRNO macro that wraps around some code to preserve errno. > It's only used in a few places. The first place I saw was calling msyslog. > That would make sense if following code did something that depended on the > error, but I checked all 4 cases and they ne

Re: Removing interleaved mode

2016-08-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > dfoxfra...@gmail.com said: > > With Eric's permission, I have removed support for interleaved mode in my > > proto-refactor branch. Here is its commit-message eulogy: > > Seems fine with me. I've never used it. > > We should test things to make sure nothing strange happens. I