On 4 Feb 2018, at 15:04, iry iry@riseup.net wrote:
Therefore, may I propose to let Tor parse only the files whose name ends with .torrc ?
Yes, this is standard behaviour among many tools.
To be more precise, most tools accept files ending in ".conf". We might want tor to accept ".conf" for consistency.
I suggest we also accept files called "torrc", or ending in ".torrc". This should probably also include files called literally ".torrc".
Since this is a breaking change, we might want to check if any distribution has adopted another naming scheme, and avoid breaking that naming scheme.
Or maybe even only parse number_filename.torrc for better consistency and for more clear priority order?
No, this is counter-intuitive. It will confuse many users. It is not how most other tools work.
Thank you so much for the feedback, teor!
I have opened the ticket #25140 for this. Shall I try to make a patch on this? Or is it preferred to leave it to developers from TPO?
We accept patches from anyone.
If you'd like your patch to be reviewed quickly: * put the ticket in 0.3.3, because it's a bugfix * change the status to "needs review" once you have a patch
Thanks!
T