BIND segway -> python -> first-class ports

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 12 Dec 2013, at 9:39, Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com> wrote:

> On 12/11/2013 2:45 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>> On 11 Dec 2013, at 18:51, Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com> wrote:
>>> On 12/10/2013 9:34 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>>> A parseable output from gpart would be wonderful.
>>> 
>>> Have you seen the kern.geom.conf* sysctls?
>> 
>> Have you tried parsing them from a shell script? :)
> 
> Yes, actually.  kern.geom.conftxt is particularly easy to parse--it's already a set of space-separated fields, one line per device.
> 

Oops, actually I misread that and assumed it was talking about the XML version.

However the txt version has some very serious limitations - for example if you have labels with whitespace it will be ambiguous.

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