Mismatch between code and documentation for default pipe mode

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 11:51:24PM +0100, Benjamin Cama wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had a headache trying to understand why my pipe ???preference??? option
> was ignored, and then found out about pipe ???mode???. The documentation
> says that the default mode is ???opaque??? (see
> http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&f=bird-6.html#ss6.6 )
> 
> But the code doesn't say so, see
> https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/repository/revisions/master/entry/proto/pipe/config.Y#L27 :
> 
>         PIPE_CFG->mode = PIPE_TRANSPARENT;
> 
> What is the intended default?

Hello

This is a bug in the documentation, the transparent mode is the intended
default. Opaque mode is more or less obsolete and is here mostly for
compatibility. When using the transparent mode, you could change
the preference option in filters.

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