Re: procfs problems

david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.c.h.i.i.l.u.s)
16 Apr 1997 13:39:17 -0700


In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.95L01at.970415104854.30134A-100000@sasami.anime.net>,
Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> wrote:

>Note that I'm not necessarily complaining about that each architecture has
>its own information, I'm complaining about crap like this:
>
>Alpha:
>BogoMIPS : 163.57
>
>x86:
>bogomips : 35.84
>
>Sparc:
>BogoMips : 24.88

Well, aside from the mixed case, all these are simply
token<ws>:<ws>value, which is really easy for a computer to parse.
(And if you write the parser appropriately, the mixed case is trivial)

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