On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:48 +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote: > You have just argued that you agree with that I said ? My original post > was poor English, I apologise - but I think you have miss understood. Im > pushing for plain text - but with an API for manipulating text. My key > point is that the API should be common to all Linux, not left for people > to write the same code over and over again .... > > 1) reading VARIABLE=value pairs and > 2) writing VARIABLE=value pairs. There are several copies of what is basically a small library to do this scattered across various Red Hat developed packages. Take a look at shvar.c in such packages as initscripts and authconfig (there are more copies I think, but those are the ones that I quickly locate with a find on my cvs checkouts :-) Jeremy
