[Libguestfs] [PATCH v11 08/10] daemon: Implement inspection of Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 06:57:46PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> TBH, since both parse_os_release and parse_lsb_release are rewritten
> in OCaml, I'd try a better approach for them: add an helper function
> that read such kind of files (ignoring empty lines, and those starting
> with '#'), split them in lines, and map the lines into (key, value)
> pairs, also un-quoting the value.  It would not map 1:1 the C
> implementations, but in OCaml it would be so much easier than in C
> (and that is basically what I'd have liked to do in the first place
> when implementing parse_os_release, but it'd have been so much memory
> waste).

Just a comment on this: I wanted this patch series to remain quite
close to the original code -- ie. easy to review, also fewer new bugs.
However I agree we certainly should improve functions like this,
although perhaps not in this series?

Rich.

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