[INN-COMMITTERS] inn/authprogs (9 files)

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Sat Nov 16 21:06:13 UTC 2002


Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> By the way, the README in the authprogs directory indicates that the
> "best" way to do error messages from authenticators/resolvers is to
> write to stderr.  However, none of the existing programs do that (they
> all use messages.h instead).  Should we change the documentation?

Sure, although the messages functions that they call all write to stderr,
so it's not *quite* inaccurate.  But we should be using warn and die over
using fprintf.

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