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* Something I don't understand on chkpass.sgml
@ 2007-11-28 10:07 Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
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From: Guillaume Lelarge @ 2007-11-28 10:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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 ?
Thanks for any pointers.
Regards.
--
Guillaume.
http://www.postgresqlfr.org
http://dalibo.com
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* Re: Something I don't understand on chkpass.sgml
@ 2007-11-28 12:26 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
parent: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
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From: Alvaro Herrera @ 2007-11-28 12:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>; +Cc: pgsql-docs
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)
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* Re: Something I don't understand on chkpass.sgml
@ 2007-11-28 13:33 Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
parent: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
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From: Guillaume Lelarge @ 2007-11-28 13:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>; +Cc: pgsql-docs
Alvaro Herrera a écrit :
> 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).
>
OK, thanks for the information.
--
Guillaume.
http://www.postgresqlfr.org
http://dalibo.com
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