[tor-bugs] #10060 [Tor]: allow tor to start if torrc does not exist

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#10060: allow tor to start if torrc does not exist
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 Reporter:  mcs     |          Owner:  nickm
     Type:  defect  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal  |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor     |        Version:  Tor: unspecified
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 For TBB 3.x, we now put all of the default settings in a torrc-defaults
 file.  The torrc file within the Tor data directory will be reserved for
 the user's custom settings.  The goal is to not overwrite the user's
 settings when they (or our future automatic updater) overlays a new
 version of TBB on top of an existing installation, while still providing a
 way to include default settings.

 But tor will not start up if the -f command line option points to a torrc
 file that does not exist.  Here is a proposal:  if a torrc-defaults file
 is provided, do not require that torrc exist.  If this is too difficult to
 implement or distasteful in some way, we could probably instead modify the
 programs and scripts that start the TBB browser to create an empty torrc
 before starting anything.  That would be a little more fragile though.

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