Any interface is tempting to reformat. It's still bad software
design, and it seems a really bad idea to strip kernel interfaces
just because badly-trained programmers can tweak them.
>We wouldn't have so many problems if all /proc files were just a series
>of space-delimited numbers without labels.
I don't know about that. I find it pretty easy to parse labelled
items, but have been repeatedly bitten by code (procinfo, code in
the procps suite) that makes assumptions about the format of the
space-delimited numbers.
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david parsons \bi/ And, of course, I (and any ps-style tools I write)
\/ can easily read /proc/*/status without needing to
know undocumented arcane details...
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