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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:43:41 +0100 (CET)
From: Pascal Schmidt <pleasure.and.pain@web.de>
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Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff]
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Jakob ?stergaard wrote:

> Now, my program needs to deal with the data, perform operations on it,
> so naturally I need to know what kind of data I'm dealing with.  Most likely,
> my software will *expect* some certain type, but if I have no way of verifying
> that my assumption is correct, I will lose sooner or later...

Why not read everything into a 1024-bit signed variable? Will work for 
every numeric value in /proc. It's a bit of a hassle to code, but it is 
possible. You only need to know the type if you want to write a numerical 
value to a file in /proc, and even then the driver behind that /proc entry 
should do sanity checks.

-- 
Ciao, Pascal

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