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Message-ID: <20150508011819.GA18984@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 04:18:19 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Session names somename.[0-9]+ shouldn't be allowed
On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:39:02PM +0300, Alexander Cherepanov wrote:
> On 2015-05-06 18:58, Solar Designer wrote:
> >On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 12:38:21AM +0200, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> >>IMHO, restricting the use of session names somename.[0-9]+ that might
> >>would be the best way to avoid trouble with --fork.
> >
> >OK, done:
> >
> >"Disallow session names with dots since these clash with those produced by
> >--fork. Suggested by Frank Dittrich."
>
> Ugh, isn't it an overkill?
[...]
> IMHO it's better to leave everything as it was before than trying to fix
> a quite exotic problem breaking several useful and convenient (even if
> unintended) features.
OK, I agree. I'll consider reverting or revising this change.
Alexander
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