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diff --git a/html/hints/aix b/html/hints/aix new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e53beff --- /dev/null +++ b/html/hints/aix @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +Problem with recent ANSI compilers + +On some systems, including AIX, the compiler quits on the ntp_refclock.c +file when processing the refclock_report() routine. The problem, which +is eithre a feature or a bug, has to do with an unwanted promotion of +the u_char argument to an int and a failure of the compiler to recognize +the preceding prototype. A workaround is to use ANSI syntax to delare +the arguments. Since ANSI compilers are not universally available, this +syntax can't be used in the stock distribution. + +(Message # 60: 2884 bytes, New) +Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 13:20:50 -0400 +From: "R. Bernstein" <rocky@panix.com> +Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp +to: mills@udel.edu +return-receipt-to: rocky@panix.com +Subject: time and AIX 3.2.5 raw tty bug + +This posting isn't strictly about NTP, any program that may stop the +clock or set the clock backwards is subject to the AIX 3.2.5 bug. + +On AIX 3.2.5, there is a bug in the tty driver for a raw device which +may crash the box under certain conditions: basically a read() on a +raw tty in effect, a character was read but not as many as specified +by VMIN when a read timeout occurred. VTIME specifies the timeout. See +the AIX manual page on termios.h or that include file. for Information +on VMIN (or MIN) VTIME (or TIME). + +A remedy other than to not use raw tty's is to apply patch U435110. + +Details of the problem report follow. + +> ABSTRACT: +> IX43779: TRAP IN PSX_TIMEO +> +> ORIGINATING DETAILS: +> Stacktrace shows: +> IAR: 01460214 posixdd:psx_timeo + 8bf4: ti 4,r12,0x0 +> *LR: 014601a0 posixdd:psx_timeo + 8b80 +> 00212c60: 014604f4 posixdd:psx_timer + 8ed4 +> 00212cc0: 0144b74c ttydd:tty_do_offlevel + 4284 +> 00212d20: 000216fc .i_offlevel + 8c +> 00212d70: 00021d78 .i_softint + c8 +> 00001004: 00008714 .finish_interrupt + 80 +> +> RESPONDER SUMMARY: +> AIX asserted in psx_timeo(). Reason for the assert was that +> the current time was behind psx_ctime. Since this state +> can occur when the current time is changed after a character +> is received but before the VTIME interbyte timer pops, we +> should not assert on this. +> +> RESPONDER CONCLUSION: +> Removed the requirement that current time > psx_ctime by +> adding a new L_ntimersub macro that is used instead of the +> ntimersub macro in time.h. Also added a test for (current +> time - psx_ctime) being negative, in that case we do not +> adjust the new timeout. +> +> Reported to Correct a PTF in Error: NO +> Reported as a Highly pervasive problem: NO +> +> PE Apar?: NoPE +> Hiper Apar?: NoHiper +> Status: CLOSED PER +> Component Name: AIX V3 FOR RS/6 +> Version: 320 +> Component ID: 575603001 +> Submitted: 94/05/03 +> Closed: 94/05/05 +> ChangeTeam: TX2527 +> +> APAR FIXED BY: U431696 U432151 U432844 U432870 U432979 +> U433049 U433081 U433459 U433876 U433906 U434598 U434453 +> U434672 U434737 U435110 + |