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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:59:56 -0700
From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Tim Jansen <tim@tjansen.de>
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Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff]
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On Mon Nov 05, 2001 at 11:51:52PM +0100, Tim Jansen wrote:
> On Monday 05 November 2001 22:58, Ben Greear wrote:
> > So if BNF makes it harder for shell scripts and sscanf, and harder for
> > the kernel developers...what good does it do???  
> 
> You know how to parse the file. 
> Take a look at /proc/partitions. Is its exact syntax obvious without 
> examining the source in the kernel? Can it happen that there is a space or 
> another unusual character in the device path and what happens then? Could it 

Come now, it really isn't that difficult: 

    char name[80];
    unsigned long long size;
    unsigned int major, minor;
    
    if (sscanf(line, "%4u %4u %llu %s", &major, &minor, &size, name) == 4)
    {       
	add_partition(name, size, major, minor);
    }

 -Erik

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