Re: /proc format: standard representation, parsing

Adam Sulmicki (adam@cfar.UMD.EDU)
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:10:29 -0500

Lenart Gabor writes:
->I think both of the two methods can be usefull for some reasons.
->So it would be nice to give binary AND text /proc files. Binary versions
->can be smaller, and - for example - only one binary files would exist
->for a /proc directory entry or something similar.

That's broken idea. It is what ioctl's are for.
(remember, most of the entries in the proc, especially those under /proc/sys
are mapped to ioctls )

/proc -> humans, (perhaps a simple shell scripts)
ioctl -> programs.

so the first is text, the 2nd is equivalent to binary.

Adam

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