On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Paul Goyette wrote:
I had included a sample of the new output from 'drvctl -p' (show propery dictionary) which includes the new information. Here it is again:# drvctl -p atabus0 Properties for device `atabus0': <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";> <plist version="1.0"> <dict>
[snip unreadable XML]Why do we have a command that outputs XML proplists, without the option of a human readable alternative? When XML proplists were introduced some years ago, we were promised that they would not be exposed in user interfaces. This seems to violate that promise.
--apb (Alan Barrett)