From: Florian Forster <octo@leeloo.lan.home.verplant.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 07:34:13 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: collectd-exec(5): Document the removed backwards compatibility code.
X-Git-Tag: collectd-5.0.0-beta0~97
X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f01dc914b9b0a8315d1a61b0939b4a45151cbe78;p=collectd.git

collectd-exec(5): Document the removed backwards compatibility code.
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diff --git a/src/collectd-exec.pod b/src/collectd-exec.pod
index 81b3a2ec..10f68290 100644
--- a/src/collectd-exec.pod
+++ b/src/collectd-exec.pod
@@ -273,6 +273,14 @@ to make use of collectd's more powerful interface.
 The user, the binary is executed as, may not have root privileges, i.E<nbsp>e.
 must have an UID that is non-zero. This is for your own good.
 
+=item
+
+Early versions of the plugin did not use a command but treated all lines as if
+they were arguments to the I<PUTVAL> command. When the I<PUTNOTIF> command was
+implemented, this behavior was kept for lines which start with an unknown
+command for backwards compatibility. This compatibility code has been removed
+in I<collectdE<nbsp>5>.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO