commit fbf8bda30b7d522f079544eb35b0952f2832cd52 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Thu Jul 2 13:38:13 2020 -0400

Mention that src/ext should not be edited lightly.

Closes #32661 --- src/ext/README | 7 +++++++ src/mainpage.md | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ext/README b/src/ext/README index d7e5439c7..a5ed747ad 100644 --- a/src/ext/README +++ b/src/ext/README @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +This directory holds code that was written elsewhere, and is not +reliably packaged as a library where we want to build, so we ship +it along with Tor. + +In general, you should not edit this code: we are not the maintainers. +Instead, you should submit patches upstream. +

OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c:

diff --git a/src/mainpage.md b/src/mainpage.md index 2c4c49435..260e193f1 100644 --- a/src/mainpage.md +++ b/src/mainpage.md @@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ The codebase is divided into a few top-level subdirectories, each of which contains several sub-modules.

- `ext` -- Code maintained elsewhere that we include in the Tor - source distribution. + source distribution. You should not edit this code if you can + avoid it: we try to keep it identical to the upstream versions.

- \refdir{lib} -- Lower-level utility code, not necessarily tor-specific.