[1506] in Moira
Re: stella question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nickolai Zeldovich)
Tue Apr 4 17:24:10 2000
Message-Id: <200004042124.RAA11783@pepsi.mit.edu>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: Qing Dong <dongq@MIT.EDU>, moiradev@MIT.EDU
in-reply-to: "[1504] in Moira"
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:24:03 -0400
From: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>
> > - /* It is important to membercmp that M_USER < M_LIST < M_STRING */
>
> Isn't it still important that user < list ?
As far as I understand, this ordering was required by membercmp() in
blanche to sort and remove duplicates from member lists. In stella,
these values simply translate into the owner type query field for
moira, so the restriction should not be necessary.
-- kolya