> Oh, no! Here it comes again. Perhaps much more important than
> endianness or punctuation is once and for all settling the question
> of whether /proc is for humans or for programs. Because these two
> types of entities have different, often diametrically-opposed,
> formatting requirements.
>
> (My take on this question is that programs should not be looking
> in /proc at all; everything shown there should be available in
> binary form via syscall,
Oh yes! I really hate to parse /proc files. Parsing is not at all
reliable, considering unexpected format changes and spelling fixes.
It would be nice to cut down on the in-kernel data formatting too.
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