tinc 1.1 - Improve Hostname Support

[Guus Sliepen]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:38:59PM -0700, William Kennington wrote:

> Currently, the tinc application which is part of tinc 1.1 does not support
> the ability to handle `Name = $HOST` lines in tinc.conf. This set of
> patches refactors get_name in order to be able to support this
> configuration option in the tinc binary.

Thanks, I've committed them. But maybe it might be better to move
check_id() and replace_name() to names.c?

> After having read through the codebase, it seems like we could really do
> for a heavy refactoring as there is a lot of poorly coupled and duplicated
> code. Unfortunately I don't have much time at the moment to look into a
> better fix for these issues. I'll probably start hacking on the codebase in
> the coming weeks to fix up the builds.

Great! It might be good if you send an email to this list what you plan
to refactor and how before you start on it.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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