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

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@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
> 
> or (the same message)
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.time.ntp/msg/9d483a3df3f6da68
> 
> or in your newsreader, again the same message
> 
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ah - nice job both of you!  AGC, can you file a PR against port-sparc
so this doesn't get lost?  i'll make sure it gets fixed for netbsd 6.x

thanks dave, and AGC!


.mrg.