[LinuxPPS] LinuxPPS - odd behaviour. (Please Read)

[Udo van den Heuvel]

clemens at dwf.com wrote:
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> If nothing else, that's ugly.
> To do it auto-magically is going to take some ugly code that
> is Linux specific in NTP and we've tried to avoid OS specific code
> whenever possible.

That is part of what I tried to explain.
How/where could we fix this in the most elegant way?