[171] in bug-owl
zpunt class * * crashes some regex implementations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Shabsin)
Wed May 7 17:59:48 2003
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:59:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Shabsin <shabby@MIT.EDU>
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Currently, the only way to have a .anyone file but not get login notices
is to execute:
owl::command('zpunt login .* *');
Note that if one does the intuitive thing of "zpunt login * *" it crashes
some regex implementations that choke on the regex "^*$"
(understandably). Or maybe it is returning an error code that is being
ignored? I'm not sure, I didn't look into it in *that* much detail...
Anyway, I recommend special-casing "*" as an instance in the same way "*"
is special-cased in owl_function_zpunt...
Another nice thing might be a way to keep from doing the znol thing. And
while you're at it, it'd be nice to have a way to refresh the znol
subscriptions after a network outage or other incident causes those subs
to be lost. "load-subs" can recover from that for the normal subs, but
not for login notifications.
-Chris Shabsin -crs@mit.edu
-Software Engineer, Ciber, Inc.
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