Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 May 2006 15:22:39 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System |
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On Wed, 3 May 2006 15:18:41 +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: > > Of course! But the convention must be, that If userspace wants to > access the data, it has to use our standard linux > parser. If it accesses the data directly, this is broken. > This ensures, that whitespaces do not matter at all! And as > I said before, if you use the parser, you don't have any > difference compared to the filesystem solution from a logical > perspective.
o People are not forced to follow the convention. If they don't and you break an existing application, you get the blame. o Now you have a dependency on the standard parser, which is in userspace. Any bug in any version of the standard parser and...
Jörn
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