[augeas-devel] Parse binary

[Aaron Lippold]

Hi,

This was actually a question posed by a friend of mine and I was just
poking around. We didn't get into specifics he just asked me to think
about it and I thought it sounded interesting.

Thought I would throw it your way.

Maybe he can give you a generalized use case to spur the thought problem.

- A

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:14 PM, David Lutterkort <lutter at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 11:49 -0400, Aaron Lippold wrote:
>> Anyone thought on this? Encoded formats, &c.
>
> It would be worth a try ;) How practical that will be depends on the
> size on teh file and how 'binary' they really are - as Francis
> mentioned, Augeas uses the first few ASCII chars for internal purposes,
> but whether that leads to trouble will depend on what exactly the lens
> looks like.
>
> Which formats do you have in mind ?
>
> David
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