[tor-bugs] #24128 [Core Tor/Tor]: GETCONF doesn't resolve "auto" settings

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#24128: GETCONF doesn't resolve "auto" settings
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     Reporter:  catalyst      |      Owner:  (none)
         Type:  defect        |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium        |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.3.3.x-final
    Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal        |   Keywords:  tor-control
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 Right now tor doesn't resolve `auto` settings when reporting them via
 `GETCONF`.  This means the controller might need to know beforehand how
 tor will behave for any given `auto` setting, which might change across
 tor versions or even across consensuses.  We should have a way to resolve
 `auto` settings so controllers can discover what setting tor will actually
 use.

 Implementing this could be a lot of work because I think the behavior of
 many `auto` values gets determined by code in the relevant subsystem
 rather than in a centralized place like control.c.

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