Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Fri Oct 3 13:39:51 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on merlot.usc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,WEIRD_PORT autolearn=no version=3.2.3 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (bourbon.usc.edu [128.125.9.75]) by merlot.usc.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m93KdpYS012322 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:39:51 -0700 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bourbon.usc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m93KiwII029972 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:44:58 -0700 Message-Id: <200810032044.m93KiwII029972@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: CS551: Final Project Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:44:58 -0700 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > in the spec we have : > > "Please note that it is perfectly okay to have additional additional keys or > sections in a start-up configuration file. Your program must not report them > as errors. " > > Can you please explain what this specification means ? If the startup configuration files looks like: [init] Port=12345 Location=67890 HomeDir=/tmp/n00 AutoShutdown=10 LunchTime=12 [beacons] nunki.usc.edu:18000= Your program can print a warning message such as: Warning: unrecognized key "LunchTime" in startup configuration file. But your program must not quit. -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu