Re: [PATCH] lockstat: export data in python expression

[Hitoshi Mitake]

On 2011å03æ01æ 03:07, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 00:00 +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> > I'm writing the tool for parsing and arranging the data of /proc/lock_stat
> > in python. But I soon found that lock_stat is hard to parse, so I wrote
> > this patch to let lock_stat output its information in python expression.
>
> _IF_ we're going to do something like this, I'd much prefer a sane
> output format over something that's easily parseble by just one thing.

Does "by just one thing" mean that the ioctl() for format setting
should not be allowed? I have to admit that this patch adds lots of
ugly if and switch statements. If I have to choose just one style
in order to forbid increasing expressions, I'd like to choose
S-expression because it is easy to parse by any language.
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