Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: /proc & xml data | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 29 Oct 2000 23:54:24 -0700 |
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Joe <joeja@mindspring.com> writes:
> I remember hearing about various debates about the /proc structure. I > was wondering if anyone had ever considered storing some of the data in > xml format rather than its current format? Things like /proc/meminfo > and cpuinfo may work good in this format as then it would be easy to > write a generic xml parser that could then be used to parse any of the > data. "MemTotal: %8lu kB\n" > > In the case of the meminfo it would be a matter of changing the lines in > fs/proc/array.c function get_meminfo(char * buffer) from > > "MemTotal: %8lu kB\n" > > to something like > > "<memtotal>%8lu kB</memtotal>\n"
The general consensus is that if we have a major reorganization, in proc the rule will be one value per file. And let directories do the grouping.
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