On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 23:04 +0200, Johnny Billquist 
> Well, the suggested external storage format was XML, but it might be 
> something binary (as has been hinted), or some even more tricky format 
> to get right.

In this case, we need to be careful what we decide is an XML plist and
what is a binary plist. I wouldn't dream of having (from a separate
thread) bootprops use a binary plist for this very reason.

Less critical things (lets say for example the dhcpd leases database, or
utmp/utmpx) would be fine with a binary plist.

We need to figure out where that line goes :-)

> A plist file don't mean anything to me. You'll have to be more specific 
> to which external format you are talking about. Because that external 
> format is what I'll see if I open the file with a text editor.
> And that is where I might be getting into problems if my system is 
> borked out enough that I can't even run a text editor.
> cat is my friend.

There's always /rescue/vi :-)

Cheers,
Jared