[time-nuts] future NTP programs...

[Harlan Stenn]

"Poul-Henning Kamp" writes:
> --------
> In message <546152AC.8090307 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:
> 
> >Monitoring as such is an important task, and some of the NTP clients 
> >might be servers in other contexts, and then it makes sense to monitor 
> >that they got their NTP time into shape.
> 
> For which there has existed a system call for 20 years now:
> 
>      ntp_gettime() has as argument a struct ntptimeval * with the following
>      members:
> 
>      struct ntptimeval {
>              struct timeval time;    /* current time (ro) */
>              long maxerror;          /* maximum error (us) (ro) */
>              long esterror;          /* estimated error (us) (ro) */
>      };
> 
>      These have the following meaning:
>      time       Current time (read-only).
>      maxerror   Maximum error in microseconds (read-only).
>      esterror   Estimated error in microseconds (read-only).

And those fields have value, and they are not "enough".  The aim of
NTF's General Timestamp API is to have a timestamp with "enough" values
in it.
-- 
Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org>
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