[LinuxPPS] LinuxPPS for kernel 2.6.26

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> So we open iit with ttyctrl, start ntpd and then kill ttyctrl, right?
> 
> I would suggest not killing the process until after ntpd is stopped
> via the script; after all, ntpd can be stopped and restarted,

Via the same script that started it. So no problem there?


> clocks
> can be dynamically added and removed from ntpd's list, 

They have similar issues now (needing setserial).

> and ppsldisc
> will have to become psychic to know when to re-open a file.  ppsldisc
> wouldn't need much change to allow it to sit in the background
> becoming active only every 5 minutes or when a signal is received from
> the OS.

How do you see the signal things with ppsldisc?

Udo