libUCL / UCL as FreeBSD config question

Eduardo Morras emorrasg at yahoo.es
Fri Nov 20 18:17:04 UTC 2015


On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:06:16 -0500
Allan Jude <allanjude at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Although some limitation in libucl mean that, if you have a config
> that has comments in it, the comments are lost, as they are not
> represented in the in-memory version of the object that then gets
> serialized for output. If you treat the config files as a database,
> then this is fine, but if the user expects to still hand edit them
> with an editor, this is a fairly big POLA violation.

POLA as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege ?

> 
> -- 
> Allan Jude
> 


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