[Bro-Dev] Feedback on configuration framework implementation

Azoff, Justin S jazoff at illinois.edu
Fri Dec 1 07:22:39 PST 2017


> On Dec 1, 2017, at 9:58 AM, Robin Sommer <robin at icir.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:28 -0800, you wrote:
> 
>> think of that. I honestly also never liked modifying the values that are 
>> passed in arguments; this is for example also theoretically possible for 
>> events, but something that we have avoided to use in practice so far.
> 
> Yeah, and it also won't work for atomic values, at least not since
> https://github.com/bro/bro/commit/5b889360705120c9061390214881ea376819c669
> went in. :)
> 
> Robin

I almost used this feature (bug) when I was trying to figure out how to implement user configurable
dynamic scan thresholds!  Now I'm glad I never got it to work right :-)

— 
Justin Azoff




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