Dag Brattli <dagb@cs.uit.no> writes:
> "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> writes:
>
> > Peter T. Breuer writes:
> > > "A month of sundays ago Ricky Beam wrote:"
> >
> > >> There shouldn't be one damned bit of english text in there anywhere.
> > >
> > > I disagree. procfs is the most important and useful reporting system
> > > the kernel has.
> >
> > I hope you actually wrote serious proc-using code. If not, you should
> > not argue. I wrote the new ps, and I think /proc is a crawling horror.
>
> I guess I might upset some people, but why not present most files in /proc
> in XML format. Then you just add tags to all the information describing the
> both structure and what the info really is. The good thing with this is
> that you can both add new or remove information without breaking old
> applications. You don't need to worry about different versions of the
> kernel having different output, and you could even use your web-browser
> (when they have XML-support, Opera already has) to view the /proc file
> system. Your ps program and many others could be replaced by a style-sheet 8)
Hideous. One file one value as it is mostly in /proc/sys is much nicer. Baring race conditions.
Eric
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