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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: System clock always unsynced
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Ian Lepore:

> The missing documentation you're looking for is probably RFC 1589.  The
> ntp_adjtime manpage probably should mention it.

That looks useful, yes... Although it appears do describe an older
version of the API: timex.status is described as having TIME_* clock
state values and there is no trace of ORed STA_* flags.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de