Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:31:11 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, delphij@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall installUpgrade.c Message-ID: <72054.1181122271@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:28:37 %2B0100." <20070606092836.GL1834@submonkey.net>
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In message <20070606092836.GL1834@submonkey.net>, Ceri Davies writes: > >--enLffk0M6cffIOOh >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:56:42PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> On Wednesday 06 June 2007 17:10, Ceri Davies wrote: >> > > Right answer: Why not read it from sysctl kern.geom.confxml >> > >> > That sounds like the right thing to do, but that sysctl returns >> > nothing on my RELENG_6 system; why would that be? >>=20 >> Also, parsing it could be problematic :( >> (XML isn't in sysinstall's limited repertoire) Please look at how gstat uses a convenient library function to do just that... >Well there is kern.geom.conftxt :) Please don't That is only a crutch for the old crufty libdisk. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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