Hello Stéphane, On 10 March 2015 at 00:26, Stéphane Aulery <saulery@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Michael, > > Le lundi 09 mars 2015 à 10:03:09, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) a écrit : >> On 03/09/2015 08:59 AM, Stéphane Aulery wrote: >> > Le lundi 09 mars 2015 à 08:22:01, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) a écrit : >> >> >> >> On 03/08/2015 02:05 PM, Stéphane Aulery wrote: >> >>> >> >>> 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! > > I dug a little further comparing versions 2.0.6 [1], 2.0.7 [2] > and trunk [3] of glibc and I come to a different conclusion. > > The keywords nospoof, spoofalert, spoof and RESOLV_SPOOF_CHECK were > added to glibc 2.0.7 but never implemented and documented in the > changelog. Perfect -- that's exactly the sort of detail it's great to have in man-pages! Cheers, Michael > [1] http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.0.6.tar.gz > [2] http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/main/source/libs/glibc_2.0.7t.orig.tar.gz > [3] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=spoof&sr=1 > > Regards, > > -- > Stéphane Aulery -- 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
