This is needed to keep sourcestats accurate when the actual frequency is
different from the requested frequency due to clamping (or possibly
rounding in future system drivers).
Leap second status is accepted and forwarded to clients if majority
of selectable sources agree. The actual insertion/deletion is supported
only on Linux now.
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.