[Server-devel] /etc/xs-sigchecks-enabled

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Douglas Bagnall <douglas at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Yes, a rename and clarification of semantics is quite doable, and
> sooner is better.  I might be able to do it tonight or tomorrow.

That'd be _fantastic_.

> By default, the xs-check script errors if the flag is not there; you
> need to use the --tolerate-nosigs option to get the 'you can do
> anything' behaviour.

I had to read up on xs-check - it's just a simpler friend of xs-sum .
Would it not be easier and less suprising if both tools had the same
behaviour? We can define that the general concept is that

  if -e /etc/xs-security-on or "--strict" is passed then be strict,
  otherwise just check consistency if relevant (xs-sum)

which means that xs-check can just shortcut to exit 0 in some cases.
But it simplifies our callers significantly.

does that sound good?


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