On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:10:27AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 03/19/2012 09:54 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > >This is a resubmit of a previous series I sent as a RFC, with some changes to > >prepare for an upcoming patch that will make additional changes to the > >default > >config-file loading code. > > > >This series needs be applied on top of the "./configure --confdir" series I > >sent today. > > Why not just use /dev/fd/N ?
Personally, I don't like filenames with special meanings (as not every OS has /dev/fd we would have to treat them specially), or filenames that become non-extensible mini-languages by themselves. Many other command-line options use the key=value syntax, and some already have an "fd" option, so this just follows the convention. Also, this is more extensible to allow more options to be added to -readconfig if needed (for example: debugging options, or the help=defconfig option I added on the RFC series I sent after this one). -- Eduardo
