[1566] in Moira
Re: access_list() fixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Jun 2 13:28:55 2000
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jun 2000 05:29:37 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 13:28:47 -0400
> >> Shouldn't that be strlen(newname)>5 ? (including the hyphen)
>
> Well, it depends on whether we want to stop someone from taking the
> list name "sp00-". I don't think it really matters one way or the
> other. It can be 5 if that gives you warm fuzzies.
I was nervous about tryign to compare the 5 character of a 4 character
list, but I guess the null termination would save us there.
> The client will print "Unknown error code 71" or whatever like any
> com_err application would. This shouldn't stop us from adding new error
> codes, since the logical conclusion is that we should never add another
> error code again. People with local moira clients earn no pity if
> they're not clueful enough to cope.
I wanted to make sure the failure was at least that graceful before
deeming it reasonable. It's a little annoying, but I agree that it's
not a reason not to add the new error code.
Jonathon
