Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 14:05:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 14:05:04 -0500 Received: from unthought.net ([212.97.129.24]:54232 "HELO mail.unthought.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 14:04:53 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:04:52 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jakob_=D8stergaard?= To: Alexander Viro Cc: John Levon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Phillips , Tim Jansen Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] Message-ID: <20011104200452.L14001@unthought.net> Mail-Followup-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jakob_=D8stergaard?= , Alexander Viro , John Levon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Phillips , Tim Jansen In-Reply-To: <20011104193134.G14001@unthought.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from viro@math.psu.edu on Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:40:22PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:40:22PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob %stergaard wrote: > > So you want generaiton and parsing of text strings whenever we pass an int from > > the kernel ? > > "scanf is tough" --- programmer Barbie... I'm a little scared when our VFS guy claims he never heard of excellent programmers using scanf in a way that led to parse errors. /me hopes VFS doesn't use scanf... Come on Al, if you have real arguments let hear them, if you want to insult people you gotta do better than that above. :) -- ................................................................ : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : :.........................: putrid forms of man : : Jakob ?stergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: - 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/