libconfig patch for including files (fwd)

[Ken Murchison]

Matthew Hodgson wrote:

> This seemed to disappear into the void first time, so i'll try resending
> it from pine rather than thunderbird...
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:31:56 +0100
> From: Matthew Hodgson <matthew at mxtelecom.com>
> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: libconfig patch for including files
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a slightly strange requirement for being able to include additional
> config files in my /etc/imapd.conf.  The motivation is not because a ~60 
> line
> imapd.conf needs abstraction to be manageable, but because includes allow
> sensitive information such as plaintext MySQL passwords to reside in a
> standalone file, allowing the rest of the config to be checked into a
> relatively public CVS repository.  The desired effect is to go from:

I committed and credited your patch to CVS with a couple of changes:

- we changed the option name from 'include' to '@include' just to 
differentiate directives from options

- we added loop detection  -- a file can't be included recursively (or 
more than once for that matter)

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