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

[Eric S. Raymond]

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.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>