Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:12:12 -0600 (MDT) | From | Rob Riggs <> | Subject | RE: proposal for generic interface to /proc text files |
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On 30-Sep-96 Dan Hollis wrote: >I agree. /proc should be standardized ASAP. That would prevent the >problems with upgrading procutils when fields change in the future (and >you can bet 100% they will.)
/proc does not _need_ to be standardized. It would be nice if it were, but including formatting tags in each page is pure nonsense. There are other means of insuring backwards compatibility. And if were are doing this to support _one_ piece of software (procinfo) - absolutely not. The author of procinfo should just create a PDL (proc description language) file that is distributed with each kernel. This also would be usable by other /proc consumers.
Rob (rriggs@tesser.com)
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