Messages in this thread |  | | From | joeja@mindspri ... | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:17:03 -0500 | Subject | Re: Re: /proc & xml data |
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Um, I'd have to say that putting one value in a file with a directory as a grouping would probably be a nightmare to maintain as well as navigate through. In essance you could end up with more files in the /proc than on the rest of the filesystem filesystem (excluding the /dev dir). It would start to have the whole proc tree look like something from /proc/sys/net/ipv4. Although the /proc/sys/net/ipv4 probably needs to have one value in a file as some of these are settable on from the console, other fiels that are not changable (like /proc/meminfo, proc/cpuinfo etc) would be a waste in one value per file.
Isn't the /proc supposed to be a 'friendly' interface into the kernel?
Anyway it was a more of a question.
> 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 > > "%8lu kB\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.
Eric
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