Re: [ntp:questions] Ntpd in uninterruptible sleep?

[Dave Hart <hart%ntp.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 08:12, Dave Hart <hart%ntp.org@localhost> wrote:
> Secondly, I'm having a hard time believing this could be a bug in the
> NetBSD 5.x SPARC dtoa() implementation or routines upon which it is
> built.  If that code were prone to infinite looping, surely that bug
> would have been identified long ago.  My best guess is hardware bug or
> failure, but that's the issue I hope we can get some help nailing
> down.

Evidence has changed, and now I do believe it's a bug in sparc32
dtoa().  This should be relatively easy to confirm with a test program
that beats on dtoa().

See:

http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2011-November/030984.html

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http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.time.ntp/msg/9d483a3df3f6da68

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Cheers,
Dave Hart