[LinuxPPS] convergence patch

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Hal V. Engel wrote:
> The other thing is that as far as I can determine the only user land app that 
> uses this API is ntp so perhaps the best solution is to modify the ntp build 
> so that it no longer uses glibc and instead builds against the kernel 
> directly.

This may work for Linux, but what about the other ntp platforms?
That is the thing that the ntp folks will check first.

Udo