Re: [Scst-devel] Alternative for scstadmin?

[Stephan B. <ste...@jv...>]

Am 31.10.13 16:47, schrieb Grant Albitz:
> Is any configuration utility really a necessity if you are that concerned? I have a working system and have never used scstadmin, I just edit the conf files..
I do have both… systems using a stable scst.conf and quite dynamic ones, 
which can't run with a stable scst.conf, since those have dynamic 
configurations.
This is the only purpose for using scstadmin, anyway - performing 
dynamic changes to scst while it's running with the ease of mind, that 
you are a bit protected from accidentially blowing up your targets, 
which would happen immediately and without asking when using sysfs.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sietse van Zanen [mailto:si...@wi...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:25 AM
> To: Bart Van Assche; scs...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Alternative for scstadmin?
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> Well any language that can be directly compiled into an ELF binary would be acceptable. I will definitely consider rewriting scstadmin, in C++ as that's the only language besides pascal and java that I know, but I haven't been programming since college and that's almost 15 years ago. Besides, for at least the next half year I will not have time to do this.
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> The question is also, is it necessary to rewrite scstadmin in c++? Doesn't the sysfs provide most if not all of the functions to add/remove devices, luns etc? And if so, would shell scripting be an alternative?
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> -Sietse
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> From: Bart Van Assche [bva...@ac...]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 17:19
> To: Sietse van Zanen; scs...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Alternative for scstadmin?
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> On 30/10/2013 6:32, Sietse van Zanen wrote:
>> Is there an alternative to scstadmin? I am using a custom compiled system for SCST and I just hate having 12MB (20% of the total system) of Perl libraries and modules just for scstadmin, and besides it's insecure to have any compilable language installed.
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>> I have looked into par and pp, but this does not yield any usable results, the generated executable leaves heaps of files in /tmp, segfaults all the time and pp has absolutely terrible compression.
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>> perlapp is also not a possibility as it costs $200,- to purchase the complete PDK.
> I understand you concern but I'm not sure which programming language would be acceptable for you ? scstadmin relies heavily on associative containers. Languages like Python and C++ have such a feature. Does this mean that you are considering to write an equivalent of scstadmin in another language than Perl ?
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> Bart.
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