also sprach Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru> [2006.08.23.1659 +0100]:
> This means you're suggesting a whole new aspect of functionality
> to be introduced to udev, because udev is currently, AFAIK, only
> for creating device nodes under /dev/.
cat /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules
> >Like a HAL interface, or a socket, so we can have GNOME/KDE
> >applications easily configure networks on laptops.
>
> Why is a socket better than proper UNIX-way command-line
> interface? (Proper UNIX-way includes producing machine-friendly
> output.)
One does not prevent the other. It's better because the command line
is not really event-driven, nor is it always easy to work with
permissions.
> As for me, I would personally prefer starting a new project like
> netconf in C or some other imperative language rather than
> contributing to ifupdown -- I'm not very good with the concept of
> literal programming. I believe that a good, solid programming
> style allows to express an algorithm better than paragraphs of
> prose. (That's just my personal opinion.)
I want to use Python for netconf and possibly later port it to C++.
Definitely *not* C.
But that's me, and the above is just talk. If you disagree, use C.
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