On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 16:22 -0400, Michael Tremer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 17:24 +0200, Jonatan Schlag wrote:
> > This patch add two new functions:
> > config_get_id_from_config()
> > config_get_hook_from_config
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jonatan Schlag <jonatan.schlag(a)ipfire.org>
> > ---
> >  src/functions/functions.config | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/functions/functions.config
> > b/src/functions/functions.config
> > index 854f490..e11a1c2 100644
> > --- a/src/functions/functions.config
> > +++ b/src/functions/functions.config
> > @@ -51,3 +51,23 @@ config_domainname() {
> >  	# the domain part.
> >  	print "${hostname#*.}"
> >  }
> > +
> > +config_get_id_from_config() {
> > +	# This function returns the id for a given config name
> > +	# Example 'dhcp.0' => 0
> > +	assert [ $# -eq 1 ]
> > +	local config=${1}
> > +
> > +	local hook=$(config_get_hook_from_config ${config})
> > +	echo "${config//"${hook}."/}"
> > +
> > +}
> 
> There is an extra empty line.
> 
> And calling config_get_hook_from_config() is an expensive call. It
> forks a subshell and loads the hook and so on.
> 
> I am sure that you can find the ID without knowing what is coming
> before. That would increase performance of this function
> tremendously.

Actually I am wrong here. This is the function below :)

Still you can avoid calling it...

> 
> > +
> > +config_get_hook_from_config() {
> > +	# This function returns the hook for a given config name
> > +	# Example 'dhcp.0' => dhcp
> > +	assert [ $# -eq 1 ]
> > +	local config=${1}
> > +
> > +	echo "${config//.*[[:digit:]]/}"
> > +}