From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 10 02:49:39 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 86E7442F for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:49:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C757196A for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:49:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Alfreds-MacBook-Pro.local (50-204-88-5-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [50.204.88.5]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8F4D61A3C1F; Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:49:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52A68141.6010003@mu.org> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:49:37 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel O'Connor , "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" Subject: Re: BIND segway -> python -> first-class ports References: <52A12843.3010204@freebsd.org> <0BFC927B-D72E-4926-BB3D-2C000F310BDD@fisglobal.com> <7271C4C4-7BAB-4DA7-9E10-49D5B2DB8964@mu.org> <52A51438.4090200@bluerosetech.com> <8D54491D-5A1C-4D30-AD48-12336D0726DC@gsoft.com.au> <52A67BE8.9050509@mu.org> <20131210023615.GR55638@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20131210023615.GR55638@funkthat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:49:39 -0000 On 12/9/13, 6:36 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote this message on Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 18:26 -0800: >> On 12/9/13, 2:11 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >>> On 9 Dec 2013, at 22:21, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>>>> On Dec 8, 2013, at 9:13 PM, "Daniel O'Connor" >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> (I don't care if it's JSON, XML or smoke signals just so long as it >>>>> isn't hideously slow). >>>>> >>>> You have described exactly what we are trying to accomplish. Thank you! >>> OK, great, can you have an implementation by COB Friday? :) >>> >>> Although seriously, I do wonder what the best way to implement it would be. >>> >>> I can imagine modifying /bin/sh to have such a feature would be somewhat >>> controversial.. >>> >> A few interesting targets would be sysctl, ifconfig, gpart, disklabel, >> ... any others? > gpart info is already in XML from sysctl kern.geom.confxml... > > And disklabel has been retired and replaced by gpart... > XML doesn't work for everyone, and as far as disklabel, wasn't aware it was toast in HEAD, it's still around in 9.2 and we've been doing most of our development there so oops! -Alfred