Re: [gpsd-dev] Updated docs on NTP segment management

[Harlan Stenn]

"Eric S. Raymond" writes:
> Yes.  I wrote a better implementation of NTP's end of the SHM thing
> yesterday and today, starting from what's in nptd/refclock_shm.c.  The
> biggest problematic thing I fixed was the lack of memory barriers to
> guarantee correctness under concurrent access by multiple writers.  
> It's disturbing that this hasn't been done in ntpd itself.

Please open a bug report and submit a patch.

H