Re: /proc format: standard representation, parsing

Lenart Gabor (lgb@hal2000.hal.vein.hu)
Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:18:09 +0100

On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:10:29AM -0500, Adam Sulmicki wrote:
> 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 )

Okey. In this case there're a few things which are not clear for me.
For example changing /proc/pci (text file) will be changed to a much binary
like architecture. So why don't you leave /proc/pci as text file and
use ioclt()s in prgrams ? Following your description it would be nicer.

Oh well, I'm (very) beginner in kernel hacking so please ignore my letter
if I'm wrong. And sorry for my bad English :)

- Gabor

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