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

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> (...)
>> 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?

(auto, under water) open the corresponding device if /dev/ppsX is opened?