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    SubjectRe: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff]
    On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Jakob Østergaard wrote:

    > Now this isn't even bad - the fun begins when a resync is running, when
    > mdstat contains *progress meters* like "[====> ] 42%". While being
    > nicely readable for a human, this is a parsing nightmare. Especially
    > because stuff like this changes over time.

    Any program needing to parse this would just ignore the bits between [],
    and convert the percentage to an int. Hardly a 'nightmare'.

    Dave.

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    | SuSE Labs


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