Re: [PATCH] make capabilities support optional

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

On 04/26/2010 12:51 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 26 April 2010 12:10:00 Steve Dickson wrote:
>> On 04/26/2010 11:24 AM, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>> At the very least, I think the man page should mention this bug somehow,
>>> and maybe a warning should be generated during the build.  Since this is
>>> mostly for embedded systems, according to Mike, I doubt an actual
>>> generated run-time warning would be visible to anyone.
>>
>> Mike would you be willing to test this out and document any
>> differences in statd behaviour with and without that config
>> flag set?
> 
> i think a BUGS section in statd is sufficient, but if you wanted to go 
> further, then a simple syslog() would be OK as well.  dumping warnings to 
> stderr/stdout is obnoxious and non-standard for daemons.  those really only 
> should be written when a daemon is quitting due to misconfiguration.
I agree... a blurb in the BUGS section is all that is needed..
> 
> i can send a patch for the man page, but i'd only copy and paste what Chuck 
> wrote (about statd remaining registered upon exit).
That would be good... thanks!

steved.