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Re: [PATCH 1/9] send-email: further document missing sendmail aliases functionality

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Allen Hubbe <allenbh@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 1, 2015, 22:44 UTC
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This looks good.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 07:43:08AM -0400, Allen Hubbe wrote:
>> On May 31, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
>> > Sendmail aliases[1] supports expansion to a file ("/path/name") or
>> > pipe ("|command"), as well as file inclusion (":include: /path/name"),
>> > however, our implementation does not support such functionality.
>>
>> According to the documentation, the parser should print a warning for
>> any explicitly unsupported constructs.  These are now explicitly
>> unsupported, so the parser should warn on |, /, and :include: .
>> Perhaps the lines that match should be ignored like the others, too.
>
> Indeed. I had that in mind and then promptly forgot about it. Here's a
> follow-on patch:
>
> --- >8 ---
> From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 10/9] send-email: further warn about unsupported sendmail aliases features
>
> The sendmail aliases parser diagnoses unsupported features and
> unrecognized lines. For completeness, also warn about unsupported
> redirection to "/path/name" and "|command", as well as ":include:".
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
> ---
>  git-send-email.perl | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index eb1d678..ae9f869 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -492,6 +492,10 @@ sub parse_sendmail_alias {
>         local $_ = shift;
>         if (/"/) {
>                 print STDERR "warning: sendmail alias with quotes is not supported: $_\n";
> +       } elsif (/:include:/) {
> +               print STDERR "warning: `:include:` not supported: $_\n";
> +       } elsif (/[\/|]/) {
> +               print STDERR "warning: `/file` or `|pipe` redirection not supported: $_\n";
>         } elsif (/^(\S+?)\s*:\s*(.+)$/) {
>                 my ($alias, $addr) = ($1, $2);
>                 $aliases{$alias} = [ split_addrs($addr) ];
> --
> 2.4.2.538.g5f4350e
>
> --- >8 ---
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Message 5 of 15 in “send-email: add sendmail aliases line continuation support”
  1. 0/9 send-email: add sendmail aliases line continuation supportEric Sunshine, May 31, 2015
  2. 1/9 send-email: further document missing sendmail aliases functionalityEric Sunshine, May 31, 2015
  3. Allen HubbeJun 1, 2015
  4. Eric SunshineJun 1, 2015
  5. Allen HubbeJun 1, 2015
  6. 2/9 send-email: visually distinguish sendmail aliases parser warningsEric Sunshine, May 31, 2015
  7. 3/9 send-email: drop noise comments which merely repeat what code saysEric Sunshine, May 31, 2015
  8. 4/9 send-email: fix style: cuddle 'elsif' and 'else' with closing braceEric Sunshine, May 31, 2015
  9. 5/9 send-email: refactor sendmail aliases parserEric Sunshine, May 31, 2015
  10. 6/9 send-email: simplify sendmail aliases comment and blank line recognizerEric Sunshine, May 31, 2015
  11. Eric SunshineJun 1, 2015
  12. 7/9 send-email: implement sendmail aliases line continuation supportEric Sunshine, May 31, 2015
  13. 8/9 t9001: refactor sendmail aliases test infrastructureEric Sunshine, May 31, 2015
  14. 9/9 t9001: add sendmail aliases line continuation testsEric Sunshine, May 31, 2015
  15. Allen HubbeJun 1, 2015

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