On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:48 +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
You have just argued that you agree with that I said ? My original
post
was poor English, I apologise - but I think you have miss understood. Im
pushing for plain text - but with an API for manipulating text. My key
point is that the API should be common to all Linux, not left for people
to write the same code over and over again ....
1) reading VARIABLE=value pairs and
2) writing VARIABLE=value pairs.
There are several copies of what is basically a small library to do this
scattered across various Red Hat developed packages. Take a look at
shvar.c in such packages as initscripts and authconfig (there are more
copies I think, but those are the ones that I quickly locate with a find
on my cvs checkouts :-)
Jeremy