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Re:The most dangerous code in the world by bbotond on Thursday October 25, 2012 @06:00AM (#4696997)
I think the real problem is the name of the option, not the range of its accepted values. Should they have named it HOST_VERIFICATION_LEVEL or something similar, no-one would think it's boolean.
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Re:The most dangerous code in the world by jiggy2011 on Thursday October 25, 2012 @06:48AM (#4697098)
In that case "TRUE" shouldn't be a valid value.
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Re:The most dangerous code in the world by bbotond on Thursday October 25, 2012 @07:41AM (#4697202)
I think that's because in the weakly typed language used, TRUE is a constant with a value of 1.
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