A
key is a unique name for a
value. The core functionality of the
looseleaf server is a persistent database of keys and values that can
be updated atomically. A key is a
UTF-8 encoded string
with an associated UTF-8 string value. Key names must begin with
/
and consist of an arbitrarily long sequence of segments separated with
/ characters. Repeated sequences of
/
characters are automatically reduced to a single
/ character. Key names,
effectively, resemble
absolute UNIX
paths. Key names are ordered lexicographically, so the path
/a is considered to be
less than
/b.