Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <20060607004005.5edd46b9.smb@cs.columbia.edu>, "Steven M. Bellovin" 
> writes:
>   
>> Is there?  I'm skeptical.  If I understand this properly, it's not
>> something one does very often; in the total system scheme of things, it
>> just doesn't matter.
>>     
>
> Well, hey, we have a data point available.
>
> According to a quick find|xargs file, about 93% of plist files on a Mac OS X
> system are XML text.
>
> I assume they've documented the bplist format, but I'm not sure how much anyone
> cares in practice.
>
> -s
>   

For persistent storage, it probably doesn't matter.  What is more
interesting is when you are building up temporary plists and you are
using them as a communication format between kernel and userland (which
is what is being discussed here.)  For such uses you won't find
persistent files in the filesystem.

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