David Kastrup [off-list ref] writes:
Could you be so kind as to give a one-sentence summary what the
benefits over using a shell script would be? I think this work has
started before I joined the list, and I'd be interested in the
motivation for it. In general, I find shell scripts more pleasant for
hacking on than C code, and there is no long-term plan to replace all
of them, is there?
That's a Google SoC project :
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2007Projects?highlight=%28soc%29#head-2b49ddde32756b52fde3b9d9ab01e1bff6aa687c
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Matthieu