commit d9e76007acb3935c49778f01a858a4b84cf2bf00 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Thu Feb 2 08:51:18 2017 -0500

Tweak description --- guard-spec.txt | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/guard-spec.txt b/guard-spec.txt index a1e8e93..731ad97 100644 --- a/guard-spec.txt +++ b/guard-spec.txt @@ -473,11 +473,11 @@ random from {USABLE_FILTERED_GUARDS}. Set its {is_pending} field to true. The circuit is <usable_if_no_better_guard>.

- If during the above algorithm we exhaust all sampled guards before finding a - reachable one, then we proceed by marking all guards as <maybe> reachable so - that we can keep on sampling. + * Otherwise, if USABLE_FILTERED_GUARDS is empty, we have exhausted + all the sampled guards. In this case we proceed by marking all guards + as <maybe> reachable so that we can keep on sampling.

- When we finally connect to a guard, we update the {last_tried_connect} time + Whenever we yield a guard, we update the {last_tried_connect} time for the guard to 'now.'

In some cases (for example, when we need a certain directory feature,