[systemd-devel] Configuration file parser library

[Tom Gundersen]

On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Chris Morgan <chmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I wanted to implement a configuration file format for an application of mine
> that uses a similar format to what systemd uses. I was wondering if the
> parser used today was from an external library. I googled a bit but wasn't
> able to dig anything up. I haven't looked at the code in detail yet.

We are not using an external library for parsing (see
src/share/conf-parser.h). However, systemd's config file format is
itself similar (but not identical) to the .desktop (and Window's .ini)
format, so you may be able to use existing parsers for those formats.

Cheers,

Tom