Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 13:18:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 13:18:02 -0500 Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.80]:50621 "EHLO mailout01.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 13:17:52 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Tim Jansen To: Daniel Phillips , Jakob =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8stergaard=20?= Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 19:20:39 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <160QM5-1HAz5sC@fmrl00.sul.t-online.com> <20011104172742Z16629-26013+37@humbolt.nl.linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20011104172742Z16629-26013+37@humbolt.nl.linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <160Rpw-0rLDCyC@fmrl05.sul.t-online.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 04 November 2001 18:28, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > It needs special parsers and will be almost impossible to access from > > shell scripts. > No, look, he's proposing to put the binary encoding in hidden .files. The > good old /proc files will continue to appear and operate as they do now. But as he already said: 2) As /proc files change, parsers must be changed in userspace So if only some programs use the 'dot-files' and the other still use the crappy text interface we still have the old problem for scripts, only with a much larger effort. bye... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/