Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Machine friendly format for /proc files | Date | Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:16:16 +0000 | From | ". Tethys " SYSTEM ADMIN " X" <> |
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> Hrm. that wasn't very clear. :) I just think that if you provided >ioctl's and left the text support in there, no question about it, I'd stick >with the text in my applications unless a *useful* procps lib were made that >would use the ioctl's. In which case, switching would be easy as pie.
My vote would be to have ioctls with a procps library library to get at the necessary info. As you say, it would have to be done well and be useful.
Tet
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