On 01/15/2018 08:33 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: > >>>> Ken Gaillot <kgail...@redhat.com> schrieb am 11.01.2018 um 17:37 in >>>> Nachricht > <1515688644.12807.1.ca...@redhat.com>: >> On Thu, 2018-01-11 at 08:54 +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote: >>> On "--crm_xml -> --xml-text": Why not simply "--xml" (XML IS text)? >> Most Pacemaker tools that accept XML can get it from standard input ( >> --xml-pipe), a file (--xml-file), or a literal string (--xml-text). >> >> Although, looking at it now, it might be nice to reduce it to one >> option: >> >> --xml - standard input >> --xml '<cib>' anything starting with '<' is literal >> --xml file anything else is a filename > Sounds good. Maybe some "inverted microsoft logic" could be applied: In the > past (MS-DOS times) for some parameters an argument staring with '@' meant to > read the actual parameters from the file that follows '@' (mostly because the > MS-DOS line length was limited to 127 bytes): For XML we should consider > everything as a file name, with two exceptions: > 1) "-" stands for stdin > 2) "@" says the rest is to be taken as file contents (not file name) > > So you could have XML that does not start with '<' immediately.
What did you explicitly have in mind that wouldn't start with '<', and that justifies introduction of a special-character like '@' that might cause all sorts of other issues? Regards, Klaus > > Regards, > Ulrich > >> -- >> Ken Gaillot <kgail...@redhat.com> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list: Users@clusterlabs.org >> http://lists.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org >> Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf >> Bugs: http://bugs.clusterlabs.org > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list: Users@clusterlabs.org > http://lists.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org > Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf > Bugs: http://bugs.clusterlabs.org _______________________________________________ Users mailing list: Users@clusterlabs.org http://lists.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/users Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf Bugs: http://bugs.clusterlabs.org