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

[Hal Murray]

address@hidden said:
> Pearly had a question about sending pps=on to an old gpsd.  I assume if an
> older gpsd gets an unknown option it ignores it?  Would be good to  know
> going forward that is a policy. 

Ignoring things complicates debugging.


address@hidden said:
> The JSON parser throws an error on unknown attributes, but attribute
> settings before the point of error are not invalidated.  Put pps=on last.  

Does it stop parsing/processing?  Something like "pps=on" is well defined.  
I'd vote for returning some sort of error message and documenting what 
happens both before and after the error.

What does gpsd do with malformed input?


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