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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:27:40 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:

> Rik, You were interested in using this.  Does this implementation suit
> your needs?

>From a quick glance it looks like it will.

However, it might be more efficient to put the statistics
in one file in /proc with named fields, or have a way to
group them in one or multiple files.

Not sure about that, though ... really depends on how
expensive stat+open+read+close is compared to parsing a
file with multiple fields.

regards,

Rik
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