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@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121684&package_id=150116
 
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-BufferIn and BufferOut should turn into <char *, int> and simple
-strings in other languages that can handle 8 bit clean strings.
+BufferIn should turn into <char *, int> and simple strings in other
+languages that can handle 8 bit clean strings.
+
 Limit on transfers would still be 2MB for these types.
  - then implement write-file properly
- - and implement read-file
 
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@@ -127,8 +127,6 @@ Extra commands / functionality:
     some sort of alloc/fallocate/posix_fallocate call to create empty space
     realpath
     trunc[ate??]
-    getfattr (also useful because gives us access to NTFS datastreams)
-    setfattr
 
   ext2 properties:
     chattr
@@ -181,8 +179,22 @@ initrd-replace
 
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-Control guestfish from a pipe.
+Some easy non-Augeas methods to edit configuration files.
+I'm thinking:
+
+  replace /etc/file key value
+
+which would look in /etc/file for any instances of
+
+  key=...
+  key ...
+  key:...
+
+and replace them with
+
+  key=value
+  key value
+  key:value
 
-For shell scripts - they can start up a long-running guestfish process
-and intermittently send it commands.  Avoids the start-up overhead,
-but how do we reliably signal errors?
\ No newline at end of file
+That would solve about 50% of reconfiguration needs, and for the
+rest you'd use Augeas, 'download'+'upload' or 'edit'.