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# TODO,v 3.3 1993/11/09 23:20:16 kardel Exp
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This file contains problems known to the authors that still need to be done.
We would appreciate if you could spare some of your time to look through
these topics and help us with some open questions. Most of the topics
pertain to specific architectures where we have no direct access or not
the time or expertise to currently track down the problem further.
If you don't know what we are talking about in the topics don't bother
with finding out - somebody else will probably solve that problem.

Before you try to send a solution to mills@udel.edu please check whether
this problem still exists in the distribution on louie.udel.edu.

Thank you for your help !
	Dave Mills
	Frank Kardel
	Piete Brooks

Open issues:

HPUX:
	- Time warp
	During the last few month disturbing reports about xntp setting
	preposterous times during periods of high load have been reported
	on HPUX 8 and 9. The theory is that the adjtimed message queue
	gets deleted. Symptoms are that xntp() complains about interrupted
	system calls in adjtime()-emulation and the time is set to some
	invalid date. Also the adjtimed seems to have problems. We could
	need some help here by an experienced HPUX guru.
	Files affected: adjtime/*

Apollo:
	- terminal affiliation
	Check whether thing are still correct in respect to breaking
	terminal affiliation - horrible stories are told in the code.
	File affected: xntpd/ntpd.c
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09169146 GW	1	#
	2	# TODO,v 3.3 1993/11/09 23:20:16 kardel Exp
	3	#
	4	This file contains problems known to the authors that still need to be done.
	5	We would appreciate if you could spare some of your time to look through
	6	these topics and help us with some open questions. Most of the topics
	7	pertain to specific architectures where we have no direct access or not
	8	the time or expertise to currently track down the problem further.
	9	If you don't know what we are talking about in the topics don't bother
	10	with finding out - somebody else will probably solve that problem.
	11
	12	Before you try to send a solution to mills@udel.edu please check whether
	13	this problem still exists in the distribution on louie.udel.edu.
	14
	15	Thank you for your help !
	16	Dave Mills
	17	Frank Kardel
	18	Piete Brooks
	19
	20	Open issues:
	21
	22	HPUX:
	23	- Time warp
	24	During the last few month disturbing reports about xntp setting
	25	preposterous times during periods of high load have been reported
	26	on HPUX 8 and 9. The theory is that the adjtimed message queue
	27	gets deleted. Symptoms are that xntp() complains about interrupted
	28	system calls in adjtime()-emulation and the time is set to some
	29	invalid date. Also the adjtimed seems to have problems. We could
	30	need some help here by an experienced HPUX guru.
	31	Files affected: adjtime/*
	32
	33	Apollo:
	34	- terminal affiliation
	35	Check whether thing are still correct in respect to breaking
	36	terminal affiliation - horrible stories are told in the code.
	37	File affected: xntpd/ntpd.c