Hello Stéphane On 03/08/2015 02:05 PM, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > ** COPY OF GLIBC BUGZILLA #18091 FOR INFORMATION ** > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18091 > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Hello, > > A Debian user reported that [1]: > >> spoof* keywords (nospoof, spoofalert, spoof) are here from 1996, >> they are still valid keywords but do not have any effect apparently, >> no libraries or tools use them >> >> it is misleading to see references to resolv+ and rlogin, the keywords >> are just ignored these days; the only meaning they have is that they >> are >> allowed by host.conf syntax > > The glibc source code seems to confirm that the keywords nospoof, > spoofalert and spoof are accepted but without effects. I could find > nothing in the changelog. Could you please confirm that they are > obsolete? I could correct the man page accordingly. I had a quick grep in the glibc source code. It appears that you (and the reporter) are correct. (Even back in glibc 2.1, things look the same). A patch would be appreciated! Cheers, Michael PS For reports like this, when you've checked things, it would speed things a little to note how you deduced your info (e.g., reference to source file and function). > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773443 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
