Re: /proc file-system

Andrew E. Mileski (aem@netcom.ca)
Sat, 22 Feb 1997 02:02:24 -0500 (EST)

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> The developers should understand that these fields are read either by
> humans or by programs that use scanf() and friends. Therefore, we should
> use white-space for delimiters and stay away from ":,=$&(#@*", etc.

Using whitespace as a delimiter won't work because of strings.
I'd rather see a colon, or quoted strings, or some other method.

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