[LinuxPPS] no pps?

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Folkert van Heusden wrote:
>>> what does
>>> lsof -n | grep ntp | grep dev
>>> say?
>> [root at epia ~]# lsof -n | grep ntp | grep dev
>> syslogd    8771      root   12u     unix 0xd0d222e0       0t0     665656  
>> /chroot/ntpd/dev/log
>> ntpd      19463       ntp    0u      CHR        1,3       0t0        239  
>> /dev/null
>> ntpd      19463       ntp    1u      CHR        1,3       0t0        239  
>> /dev/null
>> ntpd      19463       ntp    2u      CHR        1,3       0t0        239  
>> /dev/null
>> ntpd      19463       ntp    5u      CHR       4,64       0t0        259  
>> /dev/ttyS0
>> ntpd      19463       ntp    6u      CHR      254,0       0t0   12134317  
>> /dev/pps0
>> ntpd      19463       ntp    7u      CHR      254,0       0t0   12134317  
>> /dev/pps0
> 
> ah yes. had that before too. solution was taking the latest source
> release and use that one. you need my pps-patch though.

Please explain what is the matter here.
(It was a long day with at least  different idiotic situations not to be 
blamed on me)
Also: waht was the patch doing?
Why would it help?

Yes, I'd like to understand!

Thanks,
Udo