FYI, for any Tor controller developers who aren't on or-dev. --Roger ----- Forwarded message from Roger Dingledine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
From: Roger Dingledine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Does your Tor controller use "setrouterpurpose"? Delivery-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:58:44 -0400 Hi folks, Nick has been working on keeping track of descriptor purposes in the on-disk descriptor cache. Long ago, we added a controller command "setrouterpurpose" that lets you assign a new router purpose (e.g. "general-purpose", "for the controller's use only", etc) to a given descriptor. Around the same time, we also added a new option to the "postdescriptor" controller command that let you specify PURPOSE=%s at the same point that you tell Tor about a new descriptor. For details, see Sec 3.12 and 3.14 of https://tor.eff.org/svn/trunk/doc/spec/control-spec.txt We plan to disable the "setrouterpurpose" command, because it makes things really messy to then have two copies of the descriptor around (one with the old purpose, one with the new), and we don't see any critical uses for it. If your controller relies on this feature, please let us know rsn! --Roger ----- End forwarded message -----
