vfs_fruit option fruit:resource

Ralph Böhme slow at samba.org
Wed Nov 9 11:19:45 UTC 2016


On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 09:48:41AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 06:46:23PM +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 8 November 2016 09:35:23 CET Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:15:51PM +0100, Ralph Böhme wrote:
> > > > Option 1) that means for me, still thinking about it...
> > > 
> > > Can't we just make 'fruit:resource' and 'fruit:ressource'
> > > synonyms, and accept either ? That's the way we've handled
> > > such things in the past.
> > 
> > Well if the manpage states 'fruit:resource', with the correct spelling!
> > 
> > How many users do you think used the incorrect spelling? How many users dive 
> > to the source code to find incorrect spelled options?
> 
> True - so we accept both for v4.6 but issue a warning on incorrect spelling,
> and then drop the incorrect spelling for v4.7 ?

this would still be my preferred solution. I would also prepare
patches for 4.3-4.5 that mention this in the manpage.

Cheerio!
-slow



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