Messages in this thread |  | | From | Tim Jansen <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] | Date | Sun, 4 Nov 2001 19:20:39 +0100 |
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On Sunday 04 November 2001 18:28, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > It needs special parsers and will be almost impossible to access from > > shell scripts. > No, look, he's proposing to put the binary encoding in hidden .files. The > good old /proc files will continue to appear and operate as they do now.
But as he already said: 2) As /proc files change, parsers must be changed in userspace
So if only some programs use the 'dot-files' and the other still use the crappy text interface we still have the old problem for scripts, only with a much larger effort.
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