[Whonix-devel] #25140 [Core Tor/Tor]: Parse only .torrc files in torrc.d directory

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#25140: Parse only .torrc files in torrc.d directory
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 Reporter:  iry                                  |          Owner:
                                                 |  Jigsaw52
     Type:  task                                 |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_revision
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.4.3.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.3.3.1-alpha
 Severity:  Major                                |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  034-triage-20180328,                 |  Actual Points:
  035-removed-20180711, 042-deferred-20190918    |
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:
 Reviewer:  ahf                                  |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by adrelanos):

 If implementing full wildcard support is difficult, may I suggest instead
 implementing a hopefully simpler configuration directive `StrictParsing
 1`: only parse only config files ending with {{{.conf}}}

 I think full wildcard support isn't really needed by anyone. Who needs
 {{{%include /etc/torrc.d/50_*.conf}}} or complicated regex {{{%include
 /etc/torrc.?/[[:digit:]]_*.conf_*_something}}}? `StrictParsing 1` with
 {{{%include /etc/torrc.d/}}} resulting in parsing
 {{{/etc/torrc.d/*.conf}}} should be sufficient?

 Then there would be only one thing Tor's source code would need to match
 for: file extension {{{.conf}}}.

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