Something I don't understand on chkpass.sgml

Started by Guillaume Lelargeover 18 years ago3 messagesdocs
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#1Guillaume Lelarge
guillaume@lelarge.info

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.

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Guillaume.
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#2Alvaro Herrera
alvherre@2ndquadrant.com
In reply to: Guillaume Lelarge (#1)
Re: Something I don't understand on chkpass.sgml

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).

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Alvaro Herrera Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/
"El miedo atento y previsor es la madre de la seguridad" (E. Burke)

#3Guillaume Lelarge
guillaume@lelarge.info
In reply to: Alvaro Herrera (#2)
Re: Something I don't understand on chkpass.sgml

Alvaro Herrera a �crit :

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