Boris Popov wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 May 2000, A G F Keahan wrote:
>
> > This may be a silly question, but is there such a thing? Almost every
> > program that I know uses configuration files, often in different,
> > incompatible formats. I personally prefer Samba/Wine-style config
> > files which are split into "sections" like this:
>
> Yes, there is such thing. I've used this format for nwfs/smbfs
> configuration files. You may look at old version of this parser in
> src/lib/libncp/ncpl_rcfile.c or download smbfs sources
> (ftp://ftp.butya.kz/pub/smbfs/smbfs.tar.gz) and look in the
> lib/smb/rcfile.c for more generalized interface.
>
> I'm really want to make this thing generic and unite it with
> others config file parsers (if memory serves me right, Daniel Sobral wrote
> RW version for rc.conf style files).
Not needed, there is such a parser library included in OpenSSL, which
is included in FreeBSD by default as of 4.0. The documenation is
non-existent, but I suspect it will show up sooner than yet another
development effort would produce.
See /usr/src/crypto/openssl/crypto/conf for more info: UTSL.
A better choice might be found in XML. Exploring the port of libxml
(in ports/textproc) might be enlightening.
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