Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754809AbYAQDEV (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:04:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751776AbYAQDEM (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:04:12 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:46891 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751188AbYAQDEK (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:04:10 -0500 Message-ID: <478EC131.8030103@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:45:05 -0500 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Miklos Szeredi , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Subject: Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts References: <20080116143051.ec488f3d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080116143051.ec488f3d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 638 Lines: 17 Andrew Morton wrote: > > Seems like a plain bad idea to me. There will be any number of home-made > /proc/mounts parsers and we don't know what they do. > There is a lot of precedent for adding fields at the end. Since the last fields in current /proc/*/mounts are dummy fields anyway, it doesn't matter if the homegrown parsers concatenate the additional information to those. -hpa -- 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/