[OpenAFS] re: my afs wish list (fwd)

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Dean Anderson wrote:

> Oops, I knew I hadn't quite finished this message:
>
> Speaking of encryption, I see that there is a global variable that
> controls encryption (set through fs encrypt) that is set to 0 (off) by
> default. Does anyone object to a compile-time switch to change the
> default to on?
>
> afs/afs_conn.c:
>
> #ifndef CRYPT_BY_DEFAULT
> afs_int32 cryptall = 0;
> #else
> afs_int32 cryptall = 1;
> #endif

I should tell you before I ask this that I have no particular objection,
but....if you have to recompile anyway, why is patching the source a big
deal?