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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: /proc key naming consistency
Date: 13 Feb 2002 12:07:05 -0800
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By author:    Mark Swanson <swansma@yahoo.com>
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> 
> Notice the space between "cpu" and "MHz", or "cpu" and "family" yet there is 
> no space between "fdiv" and "bug" (_).
> 
> The reason I think NOT using a space is a good idea because it makes life 
> easier for developers parsing /proc entries. Specifically, Java developers 
> could use /proc/cpuinfo as a property file, but the space in the 'key' breaks 
> java.util.Properties.load(). 
> 

When I and Dan Quinlan submitted the cleanup for this we used _
everywhere.  Unfortunately some other people not just added keys with
spaces, but gracefully "corrected" our "mistakes"...

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