RFC: Script development

Jan Safranek jsafrane at redhat.com
Tue Jul 2 06:59:28 UTC 2013


On 07/02/2013 08:38 AM, Jan Synacek wrote:
>> > # return a list of files in a directory
>> > <List of arguments, etc.>
>> > <How do we control the results returned? Is any filtering or wildcard 
>> > support available? File details - "ls" vs. "ls -l"?>
> I simply return all the files (their names) in a list. I think that support for
> additional parameters could be added in the scripton itself, but it really
> depends on how deep we want to go before recreating the whole operating system:)
> If I wanted, for example, to see the files' access rights, I would  have to call
> GetInstance() on every file to get its properties and that might be quite slow,
> especially if the CIMOM and the scripton are not on the same host.

Maybe we could add new association between UnixDirectory and UnixFiles
(=all UnixFiles in a directory), so you could get both LogicalFiles and
UnixFiles in a directory just in two Associators calls. Is it possible
to match these two sets of object together?


Jan


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