On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 15:23 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:08:53 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: > > > If you have to ask this question it means you never tried changing > > configuration files from an application (or did a sloppy hack that > > *mostly* works). > > Enlighten me, please. Why is (safely) writing a structured text file > fundamentally more secure/easy/failsafe then (safely) writing a single value > into a text file? A structured file is only much easier to handle in an application not safer to write. A database-like file is safer to write (and even more easier to handle in an app). Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
