[zookeeper] branch master updated: ZOOKEEPER-3197: Improve documentation in ZooKeeperServer.superSecret

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     new 36b8711  ZOOKEEPER-3197: Improve documentation in 
ZooKeeperServer.superSecret
36b8711 is described below

commit 36b8711ebfd7ea749d547a52ddcd7d8853931728
Author: Colm O hEigeartaigh <cohei...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Mon Jan 7 15:34:02 2019 +0100

    ZOOKEEPER-3197: Improve documentation in ZooKeeperServer.superSecret
    
    Author: Colm O hEigeartaigh <cohei...@apache.org>
    
    Reviewers: an...@apache.org
    
    Closes #752 from coheigea/ZOOKEEPER-3197
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 .../src/main/java/org/apache/zookeeper/server/ZooKeeperServer.java  | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git 
a/zookeeper-server/src/main/java/org/apache/zookeeper/server/ZooKeeperServer.java
 
b/zookeeper-server/src/main/java/org/apache/zookeeper/server/ZooKeeperServer.java
index b417a8f..20ab023 100644
--- 
a/zookeeper-server/src/main/java/org/apache/zookeeper/server/ZooKeeperServer.java
+++ 
b/zookeeper-server/src/main/java/org/apache/zookeeper/server/ZooKeeperServer.java
@@ -116,8 +116,10 @@ public class ZooKeeperServer implements SessionExpirer, 
ServerStats.Provider {
     }
 
     /**
-     * This is the secret that we use to generate passwords, for the moment it
-     * is more of a sanity check.
+     * This is the secret that we use to generate passwords. For the moment,
+     * it's more of a checksum that's used in reconnection, which carries no
+     * security weight, and is treated internally as if it carries no
+     * security weight.
      */
     static final private long superSecret = 0XB3415C00L;