ntpd hangs under FBSD 8

[Peter Steele]

>I bet ntpd doesn't call select() in all that many places.  Instead of going to all this trouble to build a debugging libc, you could just
>grep for select() and place breakpoints on all occurrences.  (It might also be obvious from looking at them which one is the offender.)

I just checked--there are five calls to select. I might flag each one with a printf or something and recompile to see which one is the culprit.

>Also, since a system call is causing the trouble, you might learn something from truss or ktrace.

I'll check these out...