On Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:56:41 -0700 (PDT) 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > Yes, so it does.  But that's the API that xntpd expects. 

It's still a bug.

At the very least, you can initialize the timestamp to zero so that
there's less of a chance that it will be random garbage.

The API still sucks, and I don't generally excuse bad APIs because the're
"defacto".  (C.f. the sockcred stuff I implemented; BSDI has a similar
interface, but it was ... lacking in many ways... needless to say,
I implemented ours differently.)

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