On 03/09/2015 08:59 AM, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > Le lundi 09 mars 2015 à 08:22:01, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) a écrit : >> Hello Stéphane >> >> On 03/08/2015 02:05 PM, Stéphane Aulery wrote: >>> ** COPY OF GLIBC BUGZILLA #18091 FOR INFORMATION ** >>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18091 >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> A Debian user reported that [1]: >>> >>>> spoof* keywords (nospoof, spoofalert, spoof) are here from 1996, >>>> they are still valid keywords but do not have any effect apparently, >>>> no libraries or tools use them >>>> >>>> it is misleading to see references to resolv+ and rlogin, the keywords >>>> are just ignored these days; the only meaning they have is that they >>>> are >>>> allowed by host.conf syntax >>> >>> The glibc source code seems to confirm that the keywords nospoof, >>> spoofalert and spoof are accepted but without effects. I could find >>> nothing in the changelog. Could you please confirm that they are >>> obsolete? I could correct the man page accordingly. >> >> I had a quick grep in the glibc source code. >> >> It appears that you (and the reporter) are correct. (Even back in >> glibc 2.1, things look the same). >> >> A patch would be appreciated! > > Eventually, I may check others values too. > Do you to want to drop obsolete values or add a note ?
Best to keep a note that they exist, but do nothing. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
