[OpenAFS-devel] library linking vs command output parsing

[Jason Edgecombe]

Jason Edgecombe wrote:
> I'm thinking of writing something similar to AFS commander on Mac OS 
> X, but for Linux on the Nokia N800 series tables. The two major 
> language choices for the platform are C and python. I'm thinking that 
> python will let me get things done more quickly even though I don't 
> know it vs my novice level of C.
>
> My question is this: What are the pros and cons of writing code that 
> links to the AFS & kerberos libraries to do things like getting 
> tickets/tokens versus just running klist and capturing the input & 
> output?
I forgot to mention that I think this would be a nice little project to 
help me learn Python.

Jason