[tor-commits] [torspec/main] Lower the maximum value for guard-extreme-restriction-percent.

[nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

commit 98cf7ede083dc0fbb7242c7e557a8a2d5499e135
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Thu Oct 14 12:32:57 2021 -0400

    Lower the maximum value for guard-extreme-restriction-percent.
    
    The previous value was int32_max, which doesn't really make sense.
    
    It's safe to do this, since the effect of getting a high value is
    just to clamp it at 100%.
    
    Closes torspec#66.
---
 param-spec.txt | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/param-spec.txt b/param-spec.txt
index b2882a6..3cf36b2 100644
--- a/param-spec.txt
+++ b/param-spec.txt
@@ -363,8 +363,9 @@ Table of Contents
     "guard-extreme-restriction-percent" -- Warn the user if they have
     configured tor to exclude so many guards that the available guard
     bandwidth is less than this percentage of the total.
-    Min: 1. Max: INT32_MAX. Default: 1.
-    First appeared: 0.3.0
+    Min: 1. Max: 100. Default: 1.
+    First appeared: 0.3.0.  MAX was INT32_MAX, which would have no meaningful
+    effect.  MAX lowered to 100 in 0.4.7.
 
     "guard-min-filtered-sample-size" -- If fewer than this number of
     guards is available in the sample after filtering out unusable

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