On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 04:08:37PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> struct key_vals {
> char *key;
> union {
> ulong longval;
> void *ptrval;
> } value;
> };
>
> struct config {
> size_t count;
> struct key_vals kvp[0];
> };
This sort of code is very 1970s / ioctl / messy binary. And doesn't buy any
performance advantage because it's just for config.
Something that looks more like sysctl MIBs with hierarchical names or like
JSON w/ a hierarchy of hash tables and arrays is much less user-hostile.
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?sysctl(3)
http://json-c.github.io/json-c/json-c-0.12/doc/html/json__object_8h.html
Matthew.
