Added a 'critical' argument to module configs
Tomas Mraz
tmraz at redhat.com
Wed Aug 31 00:20:33 PDT 2011
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 21:23 +0200, Stef Walter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a heads up that I've added a 'critical' argument to p11-kit module
> configs.
>
> Previously if any module failed to initialize, then we would abort
> initialization of the registered modules. This was fragile and irritating.
>
> I've changed it around so that specific modules can be marked critical
> with a 'critical: yes' in their configs. This can be specified in the
> system or user module config. If a module that is critical fails to
> initialize, then the entire initialization process will be aborted.
>
> Modules are not critical by default.
>
> Example here:
> http://p11-glue.freedesktop.org/doc/p11-kit/config-example.html
>
> Documented here:
> http://p11-glue.freedesktop.org/doc/p11-kit/config-module.html
>
> Does that sound good?
Yes, that sounds fine, as long as there is a way to find out that a
non-critical module failed to initialize and why.
Tomas Mraz
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