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Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:32:17 +0100 (CET)
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff]
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Jakob ?stergaard wrote:

> Now this isn't even bad - the fun begins when a resync is running, when
> mdstat contains *progress meters* like  "[====>      ] 42%".  While being
> nicely readable for a human, this is a parsing nightmare.  Especially
> because stuff like this changes over time.

Any program needing to parse this would just ignore the bits between [],
and convert the percentage to an int. Hardly a 'nightmare'.

Dave.

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs


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