Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 07 Nov 2001 16:32:12 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Yet another design for /proc. Or actually /kernel. |
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antirez wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:13:25PM -0600, Brenneke, Matthew Jeffrey (UMR-Student) wrote: > >>/dev/hda1 /home/mbrennek/stuff\040and vfat rw 0 0 >> > [snip] > >>Are you refering to the 040? >> > > This works but, if /proc will really be replaced, another > idea can be to organize the stuff to get something of more > coherent than: > > value1a value1b value1c > value2a value2b value2c > > that's more human readable than machine parsable. > Something that can fix both the problems (quoting and format) is > the following: > > put every string inside () and only quotes ( and ) with \ > and quotes \ itself with \\, than use brackets to delimit > string _and_ provide information about the format: > > ((dev/hda1)(/home/mbrennek/stuff and)(vfat)(rw)(0)(0)) > ((/dev/hda2)(/var/tmp)(ext2)(rw)(0)(0)) > > and so on. With a simple parser you get a safe delimiter > for a single element and you know that there are two "objects" > of 6 elements. >
You still need quoting, so why on earth does this make it easier to parse? It doesn't; it just makes it harder to read for humans.
-hpa
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