H. Peter Anvin writes:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> > I would be a lot happier if the ASCII interface was strictly one value
> > per "file". It would of course mean that you end up with a deep FS
> > tree, but it would make it trivial to parse stuff. It's also less
> > prone to "spelling fixes" breakage (for psychological reasons, not
> > technical ones).
> >
> > I'd rather not see an implementation that provided us with an
> > inefficient top like we do now.
>
> Yes, that's what /proc/sys has gotten absolutely correct. This is a
> Good Thing[TM].
So if we removed the magic ID's (and sysctl(2)), Linus would be happy?
Regards,
Richard....
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