As a friend told me a month ago when I mentioned dntpd: "WTF are you keeping that to yourself? Nobody knows it exists except you!". Hmm. I thought about that a bit and he's absolutely right! I have added an Exports section to the main web site for subsystems we wish to advertise and make available to other projects. I added a section for HAMMER. But we have a few other subsystems that other projects might be interested in.. well, at least one, that being dntpd,...

Would it be worth calling it "Software"? Exports is ambiguous. "Software" would potentially cover pkgsrc, which is something we need to cover more, too. I agree, though. We do have a number of utilities that are not immediately obvious, and need more descriptive terminology attached.

If you add the system call to /usr/src/sys/kern/syscalls.master, and rebuild the sysents with 'make sysent', then you should be able to do a 'make buildworld' and 'make installworld' in /usr/src and libc should automatically end up with the entry points for the new system call. All you would need to do then is supply the prototypes. For example, Basically the answer is: You don't use floating point in the kernel. It's a real mess. DragonFly does use floating po...