Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:31:51 -0500 (EST) | From | Floody <> | Subject | Re: Machine friendly format for /proc files |
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On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Andy Berkheimer wrote:
> > "Machine-readable" is probably a bad term for what the original poster was > proposing. I don't think that the suggestion was to store it in binary or > whatever, which is what you seem to be implying with your mentions of > endianness and alignment. What they were proposing is > a "programmer-friendly", *easy to parse* format.
Ahhh... My apologies then. I did interpret "machine-readable" to equate to binary. I like the suggestion then. Perhaps a 'procfsstd' needs to be drafted, documenting a standardized fs structure for /proc as well as the format of individual tables.
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