On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Andy Berkheimer wrote:
>
> "Machine-readable" is probably a bad term for what the original poster was
> proposing. I don't think that the suggestion was to store it in binary or
> whatever, which is what you seem to be implying with your mentions of
> endianness and alignment. What they were proposing is
> a "programmer-friendly", *easy to parse* format.
Ahhh... My apologies then. I did interpret "machine-readable" to equate
to binary. I like the suggestion then. Perhaps a 'procfsstd' needs to be
drafted, documenting a standardized fs structure for /proc as well as the
format of individual tables.
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