No, we really want to use dot-format for internet addresses, and decimal
numbers for port numbers etc. /proc should really be the format humans
use: whenever you even have a _question_ of what the number means, it's
wrong.
So both "7f000001:0400" and "0100007f:0004" are wrong, "127.0.0.1:1024"
is right.
Yes, its a bit harder to parse for computers, but hey, that's what
computers are good at.
> Time formats:
>
> It seems to me that expressing the time constants in /proc would be
> as simple as:
>
> <seconds>.<microseconds>
Yes. Some of the stuff already does this (not microseconds, but look at
"uptime" for example.
Linus
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