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author | Vladimir Glazounov <vg@openoffice.org> | 2007-10-15 11:47:29 +0000 |
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committer | Vladimir Glazounov <vg@openoffice.org> | 2007-10-15 11:47:29 +0000 |
commit | 0daefdf35b995e4b04cff83e51f008fae49edd72 (patch) | |
tree | 3d1e2111a668b476c8e133c5e32413e0ab127761 /sal/inc/rtl | |
parent | ad568a938fb4e02ac58b3d43a3597e4da2a6f0e1 (diff) |
INTEGRATION: CWS sb71 (1.8.136); FILE MERGED
2007/04/27 14:07:06 sb 1.8.136.1: #i75466# Introduced URE_BOOTSTRAP.
Diffstat (limited to 'sal/inc/rtl')
-rw-r--r-- | sal/inc/rtl/bootstrap.h | 17 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/sal/inc/rtl/bootstrap.h b/sal/inc/rtl/bootstrap.h index 2cd390f0e383..cf10ab380f55 100644 --- a/sal/inc/rtl/bootstrap.h +++ b/sal/inc/rtl/bootstrap.h @@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ * * $RCSfile: bootstrap.h,v $ * - * $Revision: 1.8 $ + * $Revision: 1.9 $ * - * last change: $Author: hr $ $Date: 2006-06-20 04:13:51 $ + * last change: $Author: vg $ $Date: 2007-10-15 12:47:29 $ * * The Contents of this file are made available subject to * the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1. @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ extern "C" { minimum bootstrap settings for every application by excplitly or implicitly passing the values to the application.<p> - 5-LEVEL STRATEGY FOR RETRIEVAL OF BOOTSTRAP VALUES :<p> + MULTI-LEVEL STRATEGY FOR RETRIEVAL OF BOOTSTRAP VALUES :<p> The 1st level is tried first. On failure, the next level is tried. Every query starts at the first level again, so @@ -65,18 +65,21 @@ extern "C" { 3rd level: environment variables. The application tries to get the setting from the environment.<p> - 4th level: ini-files. Every application looks for an ini-file. + 4th level: executable ini-file. Every application looks for an ini-file. The filename defaults to /absoulte/path/to/executable[rc|.ini] (without .bin or .exe suffix). The ini-filename can be set by the special command line parameter '-env:INIFILENAME=/absolute/path/to/inifile' at runtime or it may be set at compiletime by an API-call.<p> - 5th level: default. An application can have some default settings decided + 5th level: URE_BOOTSTRAP ini-file. If the bootstrap variable URE_BOOTSTRAP + expands to the URL of an ini-file, that ini-file is searched.<p> + + 6th level: default. An application can have some default settings decided at compile time, which allow the application to run even with no deployment settings. <p> - If neither of the 5 levels leads to an successful retrieval of the value + If neither of the above levels leads to an successful retrieval of the value (no default possible), the application may fail to start.<p> NAMING CONVENTIONS <p> @@ -86,7 +89,7 @@ extern "C" { environment variables. This excludes '.', ' ', ';', ':' and any non-ascii character. Names are case insensitive.<p> - The ini-file is only allowed to have one section, which must be named '[Bootstrap]'. + An ini-file is only allowed to have one section, which must be named '[Bootstrap]'. The section may be omitted. The section name does not appear in the name of the corresponding environment variable or commandline arg. |