Resolving is retried in increasing intervals (maximum is one hour)
until it succeeds or fails with a non-temporary error.
Unresolved sources are included in the activity report as offline
sources and the online command can be used to retry it immediately.
This could be improved by resolving in a separate thread/process
to avoid blocking.
Instead of retrying to resolve it in the function and blocking for a
long time, return a TryAgain status and let the caller retry it later if
necessary.
This is to avoid incompatibility between 64/32-bit client/server.
While at it, convert all time values in the protocol to timeval
to avoid Y2K38 problem.
GNU readline recently changed license to GPLv3+ which makes it
incompatible with chrony (GPLv2). This patch adds support for editline
library (BSD license).
Thomas wrote:
I found a bug in the chrony client (chronyc) that affects its ability to talk
to remote hosts over the control port (323/udp).
For example, running "chronyc -h 192.168.1.3 sources -v" would just sit there
and hang, and eventually timeout. I found out with tcpdump that chronyc
actually tries to connect to 255.168.1.3 instead of 192.168.1.3.
(Taken from
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348412
)
Attached is a patchlet to make the "sources" command of chrony output properly
signed numbers. The chronyd code (see e.g. ntp.h) properly uses int32_t and
friends to get the right number of bits per datatype while client.c just uses
short, int, long. But long will be 64 bit or 32 bit depending on the cpu.
Kevin Lyda writes:
I enclose the following patch which removes all but three of the warnings. i
don't have any non-linux systems handy to test a fix to the round() function.
but having it return a double should be fine.
It doesn't actually fix anything, it just shuts up -Wall, so it's certainly an
optional type of patch.
Eric Lammerts writes:
This is known as Debian bug #195620, which is almost three years old!
The problem is that a uint32_t which comes out of ntohl() (but
actually represents a signed value) is directly promoted to long.
Therefore no sign extension takes place.
Patch below solves the problem. There are other places where this
needs to be fixed, but I'll leave that to a less lazy person.
The following is a patch to chronyc that causes it
to flush the buffers to stderr and stdout after
executing each command. This is needed if
you are controling chronyc from a program (i.e. chronyc's
input and output descriptors are pipes which are being
written/read by another program) and
you do not want to block waiting for chronyc response
which is trapped in a buffer!
This is a verbatim copy of the files at that stage of the repository that was
built from the CVS import. It allows future development to see a bit of recent
history, but without carrying around the baggage going back to 1997. If that
is really required, git grafts can be used.
