On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:58:40 +0000 Chengwen Feng <fengcheng...@huawei.com> wrote:
> The cfgfile supports duplicate section name and entry name when parsing > config file, which may confused and hard to debug when accidentally set > duplicate name. > > So add unique name flag, it will treat as error if encounter duplicate > section name or entry name. > > Cc: sta...@dpdk.org > > Signed-off-by: Chengwen Feng <fengcheng...@huawei.com> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file Interpretation of multiple section declarations with the same name also varies. In some implementations, duplicate sections simply merge their properties, as if they occurred contiguously. Others may abort, or ignore some aspect of the INI file. The standard reference for INI file parsing on Linux is the Python configparser https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html strict, default value: True When set to True, the parser will not allow for any section or option duplicates while reading from a single source (using read_file(), read_string() or read_dict()). It is recommended to use strict parsers in new applications. The problem I see is that cfgfile allows duplicates on names, and sections. Perhaps there should be a new strict flag for this.
