Messages in this thread | | | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> | Subject | Re: /proc file-system | Date | Sat, 22 Feb 1997 02:02:24 -0500 (EST) |
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> The developers should understand that these fields are read either by > humans or by programs that use scanf() and friends. Therefore, we should > use white-space for delimiters and stay away from ":,=$&(#@*", etc.
Using whitespace as a delimiter won't work because of strings. I'd rather see a colon, or quoted strings, or some other method.
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@netcom.ca Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/ XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html
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