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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Device Registry (DevReg) Patch 0.2.0
Date: 25 Apr 2001 11:09:16 -0700
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Followup to:  <3AE704FA.DCF1BEC6@kegel.com>
By author:    Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> The only problem with /proc as it stands is that there is no formal
> syntax for its entries.  Some of them are hard to parse.
> 

/proc/sys is probably the method to follow.  Every item is a datum of
a simple datatype.

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