I'd much rather have some of the /proc files cleaned up.
You have to realize that much of /proc was done without thinking about the
best interface. There's a few files that have _really_ ugly problems, and
the thing with times is part of it. But they have other problems, like
endianness issues too: IP addresses are stupidly given as HEX numbers, and
depending on what endianness your machine is, the same IP address looks
different.
I'd prefer to not have any proc-reading programs check for any
personalities, I'd like to have people look into the _real_ problem which
is that /proc files aren't "portable".
Remember: you may want to NFS-export /proc. I've done it. It's a really
cool thing to do. It's conceptually something really useful (imagine a
remote xload facility ;). It just doesn't work too well due to
nonportability issues in the file formats.
If somebody were to send me patches like that, I would at least not flame
them. I flame stupidity, not fixing problems.
Linus
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