Hello Michael, Le lundi 09 mars 2015 à 10:03:09, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) a écrit : > 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 : > >> > >> On 03/08/2015 02:05 PM, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > >>> > >>> 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!
I dug a little further comparing versions 2.0.6 [1], 2.0.7 [2] and trunk [3] of glibc and I come to a different conclusion. The keywords nospoof, spoofalert, spoof and RESOLV_SPOOF_CHECK were added to glibc 2.0.7 but never implemented and documented in the changelog. [1] http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.0.6.tar.gz [2] http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/main/source/libs/glibc_2.0.7t.orig.tar.gz [3] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=spoof&sr=1 Regards, -- Stéphane Aulery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
