On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:02:25AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:12:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > We may think about removing the dependency on parted output parsing, > > and replace that with a little libparted program instead. Colin, it > > would be nice if you could comment on this, i believe this bit of code > > may be yours. > I'm not fond of this. Having script-friendly output now has been for > long on the agenda for parted. There's Colin's patch, but it needs to > be polished, integrated smoothly (as "parted -s" probably) and a > future-safe output format has to be developed.
Ok, but this is really beside the point her, i think. The main point is that it seems parted in some circunstances adds a \0 in the middle (or rather at the start) of the string bing produced for outputing the partitions. > A separate program would be detrimental to parted's progress (by doing > work that fits in nicely here in some separate program), detrimental to > your purpose (parted already has lots of useful and tested code) and, > in quintessence, a waste of time. I am not sure. We really only need to get back the system type of a partition, and that can easily be done with a trivial libparted program. We already use libparted in debian directly to do the partitioning for example. Having a script language for parted's frontend may be a nice idea though, it would waste more ram though, and be more bug-prone, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
