Re: Fixing swap1_stop

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Aug 14, 10:50am, idleroux%fastmail.fm@localhost ("Ian D. Leroux") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Fixing swap1_stop

| Any preferences for a conveniently-parseable format?  My first
| instinct is to simply drop the spacer words ("on", "type"),
| systematically shquote() the device and mount-point and space-separate
| the flags.  That would look like:
| 
| '/dev/wd0a' '/' ffs synchronous local
| 'tmpfs' '/var/shm' tmpfs nosuid local

The flags can be complicated (see source code)

| That's directly parseable in shell (first three fields are device, mount
| point and fstype, any leftovers are individual flags) and doesn't
| require the design of another date-style formatting language.  Are there
| other, better ideas?

We can specify a format with % escapes for each field...

christos