Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:48:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:48:24 -0500 Received: from saturn.cs.uml.edu ([129.63.8.2]:42247 "EHLO saturn.cs.uml.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:48:20 -0500 From: "Albert D. Cahalan" Message-Id: <200111080047.fA80lxk105204@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: /proc standards (was dot-proc interface [was: /proc To: linux-kernel@alex.org.uk Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:47:58 -0500 (EST) Cc: acahalan@cs.uml.edu (Albert D. Cahalan), viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro), jfbeam@bluetopia.net (Ricky Beam), roy@karlsbakk.net (Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mail List) In-Reply-To: <1832004393.1005153898@[10.132.113.67]> from "Alex Bligh - linux-kernel" at Nov 07, 2001 05:24:58 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alex Bligh - linux writes: > sure it's easier to strip out a spurious 'kb' that > gets added after a number, than to deal with (say) > an extra inserted DWORD with no version traching. Design the kernel to make doing this difficult. Define some offsets as follows: #define FOO_PID 0 #define FOO_PPID 1 Now, how is anyone going to create "an extra inserted DWORD" between those? They'd need to renumber FOO_PPID and any other values that come after it. The "DWORD" idea is messed up too BTW. Use __u64 everywhere. - 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/