also sprach Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> [2014-09-09 21:10 +0200]: > You make it sound like it's walking the filesystem tree, but it's not, > it's messing around in its data structures from the configs it's already > loaded.
It's actually using dirname($dir) in a while loop, but it uses the
dirname to index into the $config structure. So: both. ;)
> I have not touched this code since it was written, but I belive
> this is how DEFAULT stanzas get inherited around to be available
> by other stanzas.
The question seems to be: if every loadconfig() run only merges the
first parent's $config{'DEFAULT'} into the current DEFAULT, then
is this first parent's DEFAULT guaranteed to contain its parent's
DEFAULT at the time of the merge? I cannot really gather this from
the code, maybe because I am looking at it with a different lense
(cf. my interpretation of backtracking without the need for chaining
in #743576).
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