Re: [PATCH] allow to read configuration from memory instead of a file

[Pawel Kot]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 22:50 +0100, Pawel Kot wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> >
> > Hi Bastien,
> >
> > > Attached to this mail is a patch that allows to read the configuration
> > > from memory, instead of only from a file.
> >
> > Please explain how is it useful. I fail to see.
>
> gnome-phone-manager generates a configuration file in memory to use the
> gnokii library, instead of having to create a temporary file and loading
> the configuration from there.

This gnome-phone-manager: http://usefulinc.com/software/phonemgr/ ?
I wasn't aware it supports libgnokii.

> Ie. we don't want to have users needing to create a ~/.gnokiirc, or have
> gnome-phone-manager needing a hack to load the configuration (create a
> temp file, load the config file, and then remove it).
>
> So, it's completely useless for gnokii itself, but very useful for other
> front-ends that use another way to create a config file.

Okay, I'm convinced. I will review the patch.

take care,
pkot
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