Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:32:17 +0100 (CET) | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] |
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Jakob Østergaard wrote:
> Now this isn't even bad - the fun begins when a resync is running, when > mdstat contains *progress meters* like "[====> ] 42%". While being > nicely readable for a human, this is a parsing nightmare. Especially > because stuff like this changes over time.
Any program needing to parse this would just ignore the bits between [], and convert the percentage to an int. Hardly a 'nightmare'.
Dave.
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