Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: file as a directory | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:51:55 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Peter Foldiak <Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk> said: > Horst von Brand wrote: > >Now think about files with other formats, for instance the (in)famous > >sendmail.cf, or less structured stuff like you find in /etc/init.d/, or > >just Postgres databases (with fun stuff like permissions on records and > >fields)... or just people groping in /etc/passwd wanting to find the whole > >entry (not just one field), or perhaps look at the 15th character of the > >entry for John Doe.
> >This way lies utter madness (what format description should be applied to > >what file this time around?). Plus shove all this garbage into the kernel?!
> I was suggesting this idea mainly form XML files, where the tags define > the parts clearly.
Use a XML parsing library then.
> In addition, I was suggesting that some of the XPath syntax (normally > used for within-XML selection) could be extended above the file level > into the file system.
Urgh.
> The problems you mention are all related to non-XML file format issues,
Most (say 99,95%) files aren't XML; and if they are, the requisite parsing is probably on hand already, so...
> which was only a minor comment in parenthesis in my original mail. I am > happy to do it only for XML to begin with (and if possible later see if > it can be done for SOME non-XML formats).
Please don't. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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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