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[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Florian,

>>              if (strcmp(style, "authinfo") != 0) {
>> 	                errno = EDOM;
>
> ah, I didn't know that. But it's not a very telling error message, given
> that we're not dealing with anything numeric here?! How about E2BIG,
> 'Argument list too long'? (EINVAL is already used earlier)

E2BIG seems far better, thanks.


> ...or just convert passwd.nntp to the new configuration file syntax and
> parser, with detailed error messages and line numbers and...

Oh, yes, it would be the best solution :-)

(Not in top priority for passwd.nntp…)


> BTW inncheck doesn't catch this kind of error. Small improvement:
>
> -       unless ( ($name, $pass) = /[\w\-\.]+:(.*):(.*)(:authinfo)?$/ ) {
> +       unless ( ($name, $pass) = /[\w\-\.]+:([^:]*):([^:]*)(:authinfo)?$/ ) {

Or /[\w\-\.]+:(.*?):(.*?)(:authinfo)?$/ for ungreedy matching.
I have always wondered what is the most readable.  Maybe your
[^:]* is the preferred way to write it in Perl.

Thanks for the improvement.  I will commit it after your other pending 
patches for inncheck.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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