RFR: 8160518: Semicolon is not recognized as comment starting character (Kerberos)

Wang Weijun weijun.wang at oracle.com
Fri Jul 8 00:41:45 UTC 2016


Change looks fine.

Only one thing: why is the following @modules tag needed?

    java.security.jgss/sun.security.krb5.internal.crypto

Thanks
Max

> On Jul 5, 2016, at 1:03 AM, Ivan Gerasimov <ivan.gerasimov at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> We've got a complain that a semicolon character cannot be used to start a comment in the kerberos config file.
> In the documentation [1] I don't see mentioning comments at all, but it is said that the config file is in style of Windows INI file, and the later does allow semicolons to be used.
> This blog entry [2] also mentions the semicolon as an alternative to the hash sign '#'.
> 
> Would you please review the trivial change?
> Comments, suggestions are very welcome.
> 
> BUGURL: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8160518
> WEBREV: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~igerasim/8160518/00/webrev/
> 
> [1] http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.13/doc/admin/conf_files/krb5_conf.html
> [2] https://blogs.oracle.com/wangwj/entry/krb5_conf
> 
> With kind regards,
> Ivan
> 
> 




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