[CRIU] [PATCH 2/7] pycriu: add python package, v3

[Ruslan Kuprieiev]

On 12/02/2014 04:20 PM, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>>> Let's make this call be ParseFromFile and pass here not
>>> sting, but an object from which we can read().
>>>
>>
>> It might be useful to have both ParseFromString and ParseFromFile.
>> I'll take a look.
>
> Having a filename at hands in criu_image class can be used to
> auto-detect the format by the filename "extension". E.g. the .img
> is the criu image, .txt is human-readable, .json is JSON and .xml
> is youknowwhat.
>
> So the convertion would look like
>
> crit convert --in reg-files.txt --out reg-files.img and it's
> clear what user wants.
>

But CRIT allows us to use stdin\stdout by default, and they don't have
any extensions. Currently we are eading first few bites and judging
from them what type it is, which makes extension analysis redundant.

> Thanks,
> Pavel
>
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