Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93D62E005C for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:26:58 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 51318-05 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:26:53 -0400 (AST) Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA8952E0055 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:26:53 -0400 (AST) Received: from perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (200-126-98-252.bk7-dsl.surnet.cl [200.126.98.252]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lASCQliY018123 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:26:50 -0800 Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 42E5747C0E; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:26:47 -0300 (CLST) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:26:47 -0300 From: Alvaro Herrera To: Guillaume Lelarge Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Something I don't understand on chkpass.sgml Message-ID: <20071128122647.GF5118@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <474D3DC8.2030506@lelarge.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <474D3DC8.2030506@lelarge.info> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (lists.commandprompt.com [207.173.203.159]); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:26:50 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200711/97 X-Sequence-Number: 4630 Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > I'm currently translating chkpass.sgml and I'm having problems with this > sentence : > This is currently a stub that does nothing. > > According to answers.com, a stub is a "A small software routine placed > into a program that provides a common function." So the sentence itself > is understandable but I don't understand what "the stub" refers to in > this paragraph : the error code routine ? the comparison one ? the cast > one ? The stub is the function that checks the strength of the password. Currently it is a lone "return 0", so it does not checking at all (it has been like that for 6 years). -- Alvaro Herrera Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/ "El miedo atento y previsor es la madre de la seguridad" (E. Burke)