Le lundi 09 mars 2015 à 08:22:01, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) a écrit : > 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! Eventually, I may check others values too. Do you to want to drop obsolete values or add a note ? Cheers, -- Stéphane Aulery -- 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
