> How much more complex is a /bin/proccat that (for example) changes null
> terminated key:value pairs into text? E.g. the proc files would contain
> something like:
>
> "key1\0val1\0key2\0val2\0..."
>
> which would translate to:
>
> key1 : val1
> key2 : val2
> ...
What on earth *FOR*??? It's not that much more difficult to parse
the human readable version anyway. Anyone who can't write the
code has better things to worry about than kernel hacking anyway :-).
I think the point of this thread got lost a good few messages
back...
Mike
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