> On 4 Feb 2018, at 09:37, iry <i...@riseup.net> wrote: > > In best case users will just be frustrated because Tor does not work > as expected and in worst case this could be dangerous. This could be a > severe problem especially because of the following reasons: > 1. filename.torrc~ filename.torrc.dpkg-old has higher priority than > filename.torrc when Tor does the parsing. > 2. In most cases, this will happen without being noticed by the normal > suer. > > Therefore, may I propose to let Tor parse only the files whose name > ends with .torrc ?
Yes, this is standard behaviour among many tools. > Or maybe even only parse number_filename.torrc for > better consistency and for more clear priority order? No, this is counter-intuitive. It will confuse many users. It is not how most other tools work. T _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
