Messages in this thread | | | From | Tim Jansen <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2001 00:35:54 +0100 |
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On Monday 05 November 2001 23:59, Erik Andersen wrote: > Come now, it really isn't that difficult: > if (sscanf(line, "%4u %4u %llu %s", &major, &minor, &size, name) == 4) > { > add_partition(name, size, major, minor); > }
But how can the user know this without looking into the kernel? Compare it to /proc/mounts. Proc mounts escapes spaces and other special characters in strings with an octal encoding (so spaces are replaced by '\040').
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