Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > I'm currently translating chkpass.sgml and I'm having problems with this > sentence : > This is currently a stub that does nothing. > > According to answers.com, a stub is a "A small software routine placed > into a program that provides a common function." So the sentence itself > is understandable but I don't understand what "the stub" refers to in > this paragraph : the error code routine ? the comparison one ? the cast > one ?
The stub is the function that checks the strength of the password. Currently it is a lone "return 0", so it does not checking at all (it has been like that for 6 years). -- Alvaro Herrera Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/ "El miedo atento y previsor es la madre de la seguridad" (E. Burke) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
