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

[Ruslan Kuprieiev]

On 12/02/2014 04:32 PM, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> On 12/02/2014 05:26 PM, Ruslan Kuprieiev wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Absolutely :) These will be just two ways of doing things.
>

Why do we need two ways? Checking first few bits works just great.