Re: [gpsd-dev] Print offset in ntpshmmon?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo All!

On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 07:45:17 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Miroslav Lichvar <address@hidden>:
> > When debugging problems with NTP SHM segments, I use a very simple
> > program to print the SHM segment. Now that gpsd includes ntpshmmon,
> > which has a nice feature that it finds all used segments
> > automatically, I thought I could start using that instead.
> > 
> > For me, it's quite useful to see the offset (the difference between
> > the clock and receive timestamps). Would there be any interest in
> > adding that to ntpshmmon?
> > 
> > It seems there is no more room for additional entries to fit in 80
> > columns. Would it be ok to replace the clock timestamp?
> 
> Not unconditionally, we need it for ntpshmviz.  But if you want to add
> a format option that could be used to change the inventory of reported
> fields in some date(1)-like way, I'd take that in a hearrbeat.

Maybe conditionally  replace the system clock column with the offset? 
Then things still fit.

RGDS
GARY
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