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Re: [RFC] Allow cancelation of NTP synchronisation



Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> The first patch is against rdate, and adds, when -vv is specified on the
> command-line, the output of single dot (".") for each NTP query sent.
> 
> The second patch modifies clock-setup to use these dots in order to
> step the progress bar on each of these dots.  In case of a cancelation,
> rdate is killed on SIGPIPE due to the standard output closure.

That's a beautiful approach. Especially if it works. :-)

The clock-setup changelog could close #468565.

However, what about #436497? Until that's fixed, any use of PROGRESS
commands while the clock could potentially be moved backwards can cause
newt to hang. Hmm, looks like there's a new newt upstream that fixes
this.

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see shy jo

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