Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 4 Nov 2001 23:09:12 +0100 (CET) | From | Luigi Genoni <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] |
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <20011104172742Z16629-26013+37@humbolt.nl.linux.org>, > Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net> wrote: > >On November 4, 2001 05:45 pm, Tim Jansen wrote: > >> > The dot-proc file is basically a binary encoding of Lisp (or XML), e.g. it > >> > is a list of elements, wherein an element can itself be a list (or a > >> > >> Why would anybody want a binary encoding? > > > >Because they have a computer? > > That's a stupid argument. > > The computer can parse anything. > > It's us _humans_ that are limited at parsing. We like text interfaces, > because that's how we are brought up. We aren't good at binary, and > we're not good at non-linear, "structured" interfaces. > > In contrast, a program can be taught to parse the ascii files quite > well, and does not have the inherent limitations we humans have. Sure, > it has _other_ limitations, but /proc being ASCII is sure as hell not > one of them. > > In short: /proc is ASCII, and will so remain while I maintain a kernel. > Anything else is stupid. > OHHH, good sense at last!! I was starting to worry
> Handling spaces and newlines is easy enough - see the patches from Al > Viro, for example. > > Linus > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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