Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 04 Nov 2001 18:54:44 +0100 | From | SpaceWalker <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] |
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Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 06:28:47PM +0100, Daniel Phillips 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? > > Yes - good reason :) > > The "fuzzy parsing" userland has to do today to get useful information > out of many proc files today is not nice at all. It eats CPU, it's > error-prone, and all in all it's just "wrong". > > However - having a human-readable /proc that you can use directly with > cat, echo, your scripts, simple programs using read(), etc. is absolutely > a *very* cool feature that I don't want to let go. It is just too damn > practical. > > But building a piece of software that needs to reliably read out status > information from a system providing something more and more resembling a GUI in > text-files is becoming unnecessarily time-consuming and error-prone. > > > > > > 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. > > > > Exactly. > > -- > ................................................................ > : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : > :.........................: putrid forms of man : > : Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : > : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : > :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: > - > 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/
A good reason could be that a simple ps -aux uses hundreds of system calls to get the list of all the processes ... -- SpaceWalker
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