> "MemTotal: %8lu kB\n"
> to something like
> "%8lu kB\n"
The latter form offers no significant advantage over the former at
all - there is nothing that can be expressed as
value
which can't also be expressed as
name: value
or
name=value
and the latter format is significantly easier to parse.
Um, I'd have to say that putting one value in a file with a directory as a grouping
would probably be a nightmare to maintain as well as navigate through. In essance you
could end up with more files in the /proc than on the rest of the filesystem
filesystem (excluding the /dev dir). It would s
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
> The general consensus is that if we have a major reorganization, in proc
> the rule will be one value per file. And let directories do the grouping.
IIRC some time ago somebody suggested to rename 'proc' to something
like 'sys' or 'system', becaus
Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I remember hearing about various debates about the /proc structure. I
> was wondering if anyone had ever considered storing some of the data in
> xml format rather than its current format? Things like /proc/meminfo
> and cpuinfo may work good in this format as
I remember hearing about various debates about the /proc structure. I
was wondering if anyone had ever considered storing some of the data in
xml format rather than its current format? Things like /proc/meminfo
and cpuinfo may work good in this format as then it would be easy to
write a generic
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