[1507] in Moira
Re: stella question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Apr 4 17:48:43 2000
Message-Id: <200004042146.RAA17597@vorpal-blade.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, Qing Dong <dongq@MIT.EDU>,
moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:24:03 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 17:46:52 -0400
> > > - /* 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.
Ah, I'd thought it was used to properly deal with fallback in the case
where the owner type wasn;t specified. However, I just looked at the
code, and that clearly isn't the case, so we'll just a ssume I was
confused.
Jonathon
