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Re: Documentation for 'final' values wrong?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 10 09:48:57 2019
To: Lutz Justen <ljusten@google.com>, <krbdev@mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:45:24 -0400
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On 7/9/19 9:14 AM, Lutz Justen wrote:
> https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.12/doc/admin/conf_files/krb5_conf.html
> indicates that tags can be marked final by adding a '*' at the end, e.g.
> foo = bar*
> However, if I'm reading the parsing code in src/util/profile/prof_parse.c
> right, it looks for the '*' in the 'tag' part, i.e. 'foo', see near the end
> of parse_std_line(). That means, the correct syntax would be
> foo* = bar
>
> What is the correct syntax? Is the documentation wrong or the parsing code
> (or my code reading skills)?
I see the same apparent mismatch between documentation and code, and can
trace the mismatch back to release 1.3.
I am inclined to treat the code as correct and change the documentation.
I'll make a note to do that.
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