Re: includes inside squid.conf

There is some major problems with this approach, even if it would be
really nice if it worked...

a) Most pre-processors do not like to be called as "shell scripts".
This is a quite special calling convention.. m4 in particular does
not like this.

b) not portable outside Unix.

Regards
Henrik

On Wednesday 03 April 2002 16:00, Andres Kroonmaa wrote:

> When I saw this proposal, my immediate thought was why not try to
> parse first line of the config file and look for #!/usr/bin/xxx
> there. Or even simply add substitute option to -f that instructs
> squid to "try" to execute (popen) the config file itself. This way
> it should be possible to easily pass arguments and pick
> preprocessor inside the config file itself.
>
> eg:
> squid -x /etc/squid.conf
>
> more /etc/squid.conf
> #!/usr/bin/m4 -E -s
> ...
>
> Executable config file this way can show you right away exact same
> final config that would be parsed by squid, expanding all
> scripting, if you test that on a command line.
>
>
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> Andres Kroonmaa <andre@online.ee>
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Received on Wed Apr 03 2002 - 17:32:37 MST