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On 12/9/13, 2:11 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On 9 Dec 2013, at 22:21, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> wrote:
>>> On Dec 8, 2013, at 9:13 PM, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:
>>>
>>> (I don't care if it's JSON, XML or smoke signals just so long as it isn't hideously slow).
>>>
>> You have described exactly what we are trying to accomplish. Thank you!
> OK, great, can you have an implementation by COB Friday? :)
>
> Although seriously, I do wonder what the best way to implement it would be.
>
> I can imagine modifying /bin/sh to have such a feature would be somewhat controversial..
>
A few interesting targets would be sysctl, ifconfig, gpart, disklabel, 
... any others?


-Alfred