Re: possible bug in OpenNTPD code?

2008-12-12 Thread Anirban Sinha
>I'd take a look at your other diff later. Thanks for patching the upstream source in cvs with my patch. Ani > > -Otto

Re: possible bug in OpenNTPD code?

2008-12-10 Thread Anirban Sinha
>I would like to respond to this with a small anecdote: I opened a call >at vendor x at 17/sep/2008. The call resulted in me having to open a >design change request for their OS. So, 65 days later (coincidently >today), I received a "tracking number" and probably have to wait an >other (max) 90

Re: possible bug in OpenNTPD code?

2008-12-09 Thread Anirban Sinha
>Why would you assume that? That seems a bit hostile. Perhaps the >developers are a bit busy at the moment. True. I generally post on the Linux lists and I believe I am spoiled by getting quick responses from my postings. In future, I will remember to keep more patience. Ani

Re: possible bug in OpenNTPD code?

2008-12-09 Thread Anirban Sinha
>How is it blocking indefinitely? Is wait() not returning -1 with >errno == ECHILD when there are no children to reap? What led you to >the conclusion that this code was blocking? (What platform are you >running this on?) Hmm, agreed. Looks like I was wrong with my analysis. In any case, I am

Re: possible bug in OpenNTPD code?

2008-12-09 Thread Anirban Sinha
ot, I will assume that there is really no interest in fixing bugs in openntpd and in that case, I will patch only our local copy of the ntpd codebase (as opposed to reporting to the community). Thanks, Ani >-Original Message- >From: Anirban Sinha >Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008

possible bug in OpenNTPD code?

2008-12-04 Thread Anirban Sinha
Hi: I am sort of digging my way through the OpenNTPD codebase for my work. I think I find a bug in the code. Please help me to understand the reason if this is not a bug. In function ntp_main() (ntp.c), we poll() to check if there are any events of interest. We do this: 1. Check internal fds (PI

Re: Latest Portable OpenNTPD?

2008-11-22 Thread Anirban Sinha
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:36:36PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > > * Anirban Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-21 04:33]: > > > On 2008-11-21, Don Hiatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I was looking at http://openntpd.org/ for the latest Portable >

Re: Latest Portable OpenNTPD?

2008-11-20 Thread Anirban Sinha
On 2008-11-21, Don Hiatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking at http://openntpd.org/ for the latest Portable > OpenBSD an saw that it is at 3.9p1 while the non-portable is > at 4.3. A colleague of mine is tired of fighting with ntpd.org's > ntpd server so I suggested OpenNTPD. Is there a new