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To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>
Subject: Re: General purpose library for name/value pairs.
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Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com> writes:
> That's a good idea.  Since you're re-inventing Apple's XML property
> list API (but without serialization and quite a few other things),

He's not reinventing anything.  He's implementing Solaris's nvpair API,
which includes serialization - in fact, ZFS's on-disk format is based on
serialized nvlists.

DES
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