[19564] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: .conf file in includedir
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Mar 21 13:25:13 2017
To: Weijun Wang <weijun.wang@oracle.com>, krbdev@mit.edu
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:24:58 -0400
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On 03/21/2017 11:19 AM, Weijun Wang wrote:
> "Including a directory includes all files within the directory whose
> names consist solely of alphanumeric characters, dashes, or underscores.
> Starting in release 1.15, files with names ending in ”.conf” are also
> included."
>
> My understanding of the old rule is to exclude OS-generated files like
> .DS_Store and desktop.ini, but is it safe to include all ".conf" files?
> At least I've heard that if you let a macOS access your non-Apple file
> system, it will likely to create a ._krb5.conf file beside your existing
> krb5.conf file.
We had mainly been concerned with package system artifacts such as
.rpmsave files. However, editors and filesystems are also a possible
source of unintended duplicates. I think it might be good to ignore
filenames beginning with ".", as these prefix-form name variants tend to
begin with "." so that they don't show up in ordinary directory listings.
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