readers.conf proposal: (was Re: incoming.conf length limits)

[Todd Olson]

Hi

At 16:18 -0800 2003/01/30, Russ Allbery wrote:
>Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
>
>> Just making the current behavior the default would get that, though.  As
>> long as the default is "break: true" (or conversly "fallthru: false"),
>> existing files will be fine exactly as is.
>
>That's a good point.
>
>Hm, can we make this somewhat simpler by, say, adding a new key to the
>access group called "append:" that takes a boolean value and defaults to
>false?  If false, this access group overrides any previous matching access
>groups; if set to true, permissions granted are appended to those of any
>previous matching access group.
>
>For whatever reason, I can wrap my mind around that a bit easier than
>break/fallthru.
>

Nice!
I also find 'append:' easier than 'break/fallthru'.


Regards,
Todd Olson
Cornell University