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Anuradha Ratnaweera <anuradha@linux.lk> writes: > Hi all, > > I am starting to write some code to add a feature which I think would be > very useful, and like to get comments and suggessions from LKML. Please > ignore this mail if it sounds like nonsense ;-) > > Also, if this is already happenning somewhere, please enlighten me. > > Short version: This feature will add a "table" file type and SQL > executioin premitives to the kernel, and also relevent userspace > programs. Things like SQL belong in user space. [...] > Using the userspace tools, one can create a "table" file (say > maintainers), and insert the data to that file. Each file (or may be > filesystem) has two characters (or strings) associated with them: field > seperator and record seperator. Say, colon and newline. If I cat the > file: > > % cat maintainers > David Weinehall:2.0 > Alan Cox:2.2 > Marcelo Tosatti:2.4 > % > > Now, if I want to add something to the table, either I can use the > relevenet userspace tools, but the following also will work. > > % echo 'Linus Torvalds:2.6' > maintainers /etc/passwd -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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