[Lxc-users] [PATCH] ignore non-lxc configuration line

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Brian K. White (brian at aljex.com):
> On 5/14/2011 9:20 AM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting David Serrano (dserrano5 at gmail.com):
> >> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 00:15, Serge Hallyn<serge.hallyn at canonical.com>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm curious, whatcha got in mind?
> >>
> >> I don't think you have to have something in mind to implement this.
> >> Just that old motto "Be lenient in what you accept" :).
> >
> > So if I type 'lcx.' instead of 'lxc.', as I often do, it'll silently
> > ignore it?  No, that's a bad idea.
> >
> > In any case I wasn't (until now) doubting Daniel's motivations, rather
> > I was pretty sure he had something neat in mind.
> 
> I like it but I can't think of anything off hand that I'd use it for 
> that I couldn't just as easily use either comments or a separate file to 
> do. And obviously as you point out there's an argument for enforcing 
> only known options as a basic sanity check.
> 
> On the other hand there have been plenty of times where I wished 
> something would gracefully ignore options it didn't recognize which came 
> from newer versions or from distribution patched versions. It gets in 

Note that this patch won't make a difference for unrecognized, newer
lxc.* options anyway :)

It would however allow for interspersed 'libvirt.*' options, for
instance, to support inline hints for a new libvirt-lxc2 driver.

Probably not what Daniel is looking to, but not impossible :)

-serge