Subject: Re: power management and related concerns
To: Chris Jepeway <jepeway@blasted-heath.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/05/2006 11:39:23
On Jul 3, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Chris Jepeway wrote:
> Please stay away from XML for system-level configs, particularly
> ones like powerd/sysmon/whosie-whatsis that can take my machine down
> from underneath me. I think XML pretty much rules out quick-n-dirty
> shell-fu saving the day in such cases, and I think that might be bad.
Then your fu is weak. At may day job I have written many shell
scripts that parse XML property lists to extract / migrate config
information. It's really not that hard.
-- thorpej