Re: An alternative way of populating /proc

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 16:26:06 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I have to say, this stuff still basically presumes free-form text
> output, which is great for humans (but even then can be taken too far,
> e.g. /proc/pci), but terrible for machines...

No it doesn't. This is about a method for constructing /proc files.
The files themselves contain one value each, i.e. an integer or a string
just like the files currently in /proc/sys. There is nothing free-form
about the output.

-- jamie

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