Messages in this thread | | | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Tue, 18 Aug 2020 22:18:29 +0200 | Subject | Re: file metadata via fs API |
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 8:51 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> I think people who have problems parsing plain ASCII text are just > wrong. It's not that expensive. The thing that makes /proc/mounts > expensive is not the individual lines - it's that there are a lot of > them.
I agree completely with the above.
So why mix a binary structure into it? Would it not make more sense to make it text only?
I.e. NAME=VALUE pairs separated by newlines and quoting non-printable chars.
Thanks, Miklos
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