questions about module rlm_perl

[Alan DeKok]

On Feb 20, 2015, at 11:46 PM, HAKNER J <hak at cooper.edu> wrote:
> The documentation for rlm_perl is a little light.

  As always, patches are welcome.

>  If the desire is to
> deprecate the Check list, Perl's glob wildcarding mechanism can be used
> to equate the two.  Such as Perl code *RAD_CHECK=*RAD_CONFIG.  It has been 
> a long time since I did Perl/C interface code, but there should be an easy 
> way to do this from C in rlm_perl.c that links the two so they are the same
> actual hash.

  Sure.  Send a patch.

> So to summarize: the variable RAD_CHECK is read/write, but when one writes
> to it from inside the Perl code, the effect is actually to modify/set
> name-value pairs in the CONFIG list?

  There is only one list: the unlang “control” list.  That gets mapped to RAD_CHECK and RAD_CONFIG for backwards compatibility.

  Alan DeKok.