On 15 Dec 2015 16:00, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:56:34 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > >>>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > > a flat text file akin to /etc/passwd is not readable. xml is readable. > > > > ESR's case study about the password file format seems to disagree: > > http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s01.html#id2901332 > > > > I think the name:password:uid:gid:gecos:directory:shell format is > > readable well enough for human eyes. Certainly it is machine readable; > > even with standard tools like fgetpwent(3) (or its equivalent in other > > programming languages). > > Alternatively we could go for whitespace-separated, like fstab. Column > aligning even more.
we cannot because whitespace is valid, and we use it already in fields -mike
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