"Dr. Volker Jaenisch" <volker.jaenisch@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > JSON you may easily use from within C (And some dozens of other languages). > Please have a look at http://json.org where you will find to 5 JSON > libraries for C. It is possible to parse JSON from C, but it's not anywhere near as convenient as a simple strsep() parser would be, and the situation from shell scripts is pretty bleak. Consequently, it wouldn't be my data format of choice for systems work, and given a choice between the current 'human readable' output and JSON, we'll probably just continue parsing the existing output as it is marginally less expensive code-wise and mean we don't pull in another unnecessary dependency. However, as I say we'd definitely see benefit from a simpler, more regular text format output, so if you produce an JSON-output option with an option syntax which extends naturally to other formats, e.g. --format=json, --format=brief, and so on, I'd be happy to write a supplementary patch adding a 'brief text' format on top. Best wishes, Chris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
