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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2006-10-18 14:08:40 +0000
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2006-10-18 14:08:40 +0000
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r9075@totoro: nickm | 2006-10-18 10:08:30 -0400
Add comments on questions in control-spec.txt svn:r8746
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any current problems with Tor's operation.
[The answers should include notice events, not just warns and
errs, for example so Tor can learn whether any circuits have been
- established yet.]
+ established yet.-RD]
+ [notice, warn, and errs need to be separated here, though.
+ Otherwise, when we add a new status event type in the future,
+ controllers won't know whether it's good or bad. -NM]
+
[Does this mean that Tor must keep state on its side of all the
statuses it's sent, and recognize when they're cancelled out,
and so on? It's a shame that Tor needs to do this and also Vidalia
- needs to do this.]
+ needs to do this. -RD]
+ [Is there a good alternative? If we want controllers who connect
+ to a running Tor to see its status, I think we need to do this. -NM]
+ [What is the format of this list? Is it space-separated,
+ newline-separated? Does it include keywords, arguments, etc? Also,
+ what about STATUS_GENERAL? -NM]
Examples:
C: GETINFO version desc/name/moria1