[LinuxPPS] Patch to make ppsldisc to 'go away' after 60 sec.

Rodolfo Giometti giometti at enneenne.com
Wed Aug 27 14:50:32 CEST 2008


On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:25:04PM +0000, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:41 PM,  <clemens at dwf.com> wrote:
> > Clever solution!
> > Tho I still don't see the necessity for a ppsldisc that stays around forever.
> >
> 
> Unfortunately one of the few alternatives is to maintain an NTP patch
> for LinuxPPS.

No, better use ppsldisc.

> You could also make ppsldisc like a daemon of its own and with its own
> startup script; this would fit in with my earlier proposal for a
> ppsldisc configuration file which could help match up a ttySN source
> with gpsM and ppsM.

This is a userland problem and distro's maintainers should solve
it. :)

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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