Pierre Fortin (pfortin@SkyBest.com) writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just joined the list a last night; so I hope this idea has not already
> been discussed and trashed, or totally off-topic... :^)
>
> In my last role, I was looking at a number of ways to address the
> human/machine readable problem space... without getting into all the
> ways this can be done, there was one way which might be useful here
> (based on the few messages I've seen so far).
>
> The idea is quite simple actually. Maintain an [existing] internal
> binary structure and modify the output *formatter* so that it can be
> read by both the human AND machine *without* a separate parsing step...
I believe Linus has already nixed the idea of having binary data in /proc.
Again, HAVING BINARY DATA IN /PROC IS A *BAD* IDEA.
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