Re: Machine friendly format for /proc files

Snow Cat (snowcat@netgate.net)
Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:00:45 -0800 (PST)

Elwyn B Davies once wrote:
>
>
> We propose that it would be very convenient if a more machine friendly and
> standardised format was added to the /proc files. Something like the
> M****soft Windows initialisation file format is what we would be looking for
> (surely they didn't get something right ;-) with parameter/value pairs divided
> into sections plus comment facilities.
>
Wouldn't ioctl support for /proc files be more logical?

-- 
 _.    	        _       .  
(_ ,_  _ ,  .  / ` _ _L	 | Email: Oleg Kibirev <snowcat@netgate.net>
._)| U(_)\/\/  \_,(_L/L  | Visit http://math.math.CSUFresno.EDU/~oleg/math.html
------------------------'  to get my programs + PGP public key