3 Feb
2018
3 Feb
'18
10:40 p.m.
On 4 Feb 2018, at 09:37, iry iry@riseup.net wrote:
In best case users will just be frustrated because Tor does not work as expected and in worst case this could be dangerous. This could be a severe problem especially because of the following reasons:
- filename.torrc~ filename.torrc.dpkg-old has higher priority than
filename.torrc when Tor does the parsing. 2. In most cases, this will happen without being noticed by the normal suer.
Therefore, may I propose to let Tor parse only the files whose name ends with .torrc ?
Yes, this is standard behaviour among many tools.
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.
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