Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:59:56 -0700 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] |
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On Mon Nov 05, 2001 at 11:51:52PM +0100, Tim Jansen wrote: > On Monday 05 November 2001 22:58, Ben Greear wrote: > > So if BNF makes it harder for shell scripts and sscanf, and harder for > > the kernel developers...what good does it do??? > > You know how to parse the file. > Take a look at /proc/partitions. Is its exact syntax obvious without > examining the source in the kernel? Can it happen that there is a space or > another unusual character in the device path and what happens then? Could it
Come now, it really isn't that difficult:
char name[80]; unsigned long long size; unsigned int major, minor;
if (sscanf(line, "%4u %4u %llu %s", &major, &minor, &size, name) == 4) { add_partition(name, size, major, minor); }
-Erik
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