From 936b12a978d68ce4153c83c73cc313e74ec0473d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralph Lange Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 11:51:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix description of pvlist evaluation order --- documentation/gw.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/gw.rst b/documentation/gw.rst index 04645788..24bc1a79 100644 --- a/documentation/gw.rst +++ b/documentation/gw.rst @@ -566,11 +566,11 @@ When a gateway Server receives a request from a client to access a PV, the PV name is compared to each pattern in the list. The order in which regular expressions are matched is that all DENY statements are considered -before any ALLOW/ALIAS statements (regardless of lexical order). +before any ALLOW/ALIAS statements (regardless of the order of lines). PV names which do not match any statement are DENYed. When a PV name matches more than one ALLOW/ALIAS statements, -lexical order is used. +the order of lines is used. The last match will have effect. Considering the following PVList file: ::