On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Matt Aubury wrote:
>
> I've done a quick, dirty, unfinished implementation of this idea, so
> people can get the picture. Attached.
>
> Many people will hate this because (1) it's doing parsing within the
> kernel, (2) it tends to favour ascii I/O, (3) it tends to favour deep
> directory hierarchies,(4) it uses recursion :-)
I like the idea a lot: it's simple, it's clean, and it does make it truly
trivial to build up a simple /proc architecture.
This is also an example of why I absolutely detest and hate "device
numbers" - this kind of dynamic light-weight thing simply does not allow
for static stupidity. You _cannot_ make static numbers clean.
Linus
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