Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Oct 1998 20:15:52 +0000 | From | robbie@scot-mur ... | Subject | Re: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage. |
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Hi On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 10:18:51AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > Mark H. Wood wrote: > > > > I think most people would agree that the simplest and most > > > maintaintable formats for shell scripts and similar programs are > > > locale independent, byte order independent, arbitrary precision, > > > trivially parsible text with one record per line, all lines having > > > the same format, except for possibly one or more well defined > > > preamble lines that are trivial to skip. > > > > Well, I would. But what about programs that aren't shell scripts or > > similar? > > What about them? fscanf should be able to handle the above type of > format quite nicely.
It's not as efficiant as reading binary. Imho a lot of /proc could be replaced by user space utilities for humans and shell scripts. The kernel shouldn't have a ui.
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Robbie Murray
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