Re: [PATCH 7/8] Remove current_tick_length()

[john stultz]

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 19:40 +0100, zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> plain text document attachment (tick_length)
> current_tick_length used to do a little more, but now it just returns
> tick_length, which we can also access directly at the few places, where
> it's needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hrm. I'm not sure I like using a global variable instead of using an
accessor function. At least with the accessor function folks couldn't
just tweak the value outside ntp as easily.

Is there any additional rational for this change?

thanks
-john


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