Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:21:39 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BIND segway -> python -> first-class ports Message-ID: <6813FA93-B6A2-432D-90C9-12A3401A51E8@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <52A8FA2B.2020902@bluerosetech.com> References: <20131210023615.GR55638@funkthat.com> <52A68141.6010003@mu.org> <622122.74675.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <20131210224915.GA55638@funkthat.com> <CAN6yY1tSqbrkt5bkjhDW6npT4PAXmMck0Xco%2BERwBE=wkkBDBQ@mail.gmail.com> <52A82099.9080100@bluerosetech.com> <B62F85D0-89E6-4FF8-ADE4-5025FB360462@gsoft.com.au> <52A8F0B7.1080109@bluerosetech.com> <62C65AF2-B68A-4898-9FBB-237DDE622758@gsoft.com.au> <52A8FA2B.2020902@bluerosetech.com>
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On 12 Dec 2013, at 10:20, Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> = wrote: > On 12/11/2013 3:11 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >>=20 >> On 12 Dec 2013, at 9:39, Darren Pilgrim >> <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> wrote: >>=20 >>> On 12/11/2013 2:45 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >>>> On 11 Dec 2013, at 18:51, Darren Pilgrim >>>> <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> wrote: >>>>> On 12/10/2013 9:34 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: >>>>>> A parseable output from gpart would be wonderful. >>>>>=20 >>>>> Have you seen the kern.geom.conf* sysctls? >>>>=20 >>>> Have you tried parsing them from a shell script? :) >>>=20 >>> Yes, actually. kern.geom.conftxt is particularly easy to >>> parse--it's already a set of space-separated fields, one line per >>> device. >>>=20 >>=20 >> Oops, actually I misread that and assumed it was talking about the >> XML version. >>=20 >> However the txt version has some very serious limitations - for >> example if you have labels with whitespace it will be ambiguous. >=20 > Well, yes, but you'll also get a /dev/gpt device entry with a space in = it--a slightly more serious problem. :) Only because shell is stupid and makes dealing with perfectly legal = filenames extra hard :( You could put a newline in there - imagine how 99% of existing scripts = would handle that? :-/ -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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