From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:39:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:39:13 -0500 Received: from jalon.able.es ([212.97.163.2]:16608 "EHLO jalon.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:38:59 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 00:38:50 +0100 From: "J . A . Magallon" To: Kervin Pierre Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: /xproc -> /proc files in xml grammer? Message-ID: <20010104003850.A980@werewolf.able.es> In-Reply-To: <3A53B08D.F10B96FB@fit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <3A53B08D.F10B96FB@fit.edu>; from kpierre@fit.edu on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 00:06:53 +0100 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.0.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2001.01.04 Kervin Pierre wrote: > > hello, > > Would XML be considered human readable enough for /proc files? If not, > how about a /xproc filesystem ( maybe as a kernel build option ), same > as /proc but uses an xml grammer for reporting. > I can see tons of uses for this, no more 'fuzzy' parsing for gui > configuration tools, resource monitors, etc. > > ? > > just thinking aloud really, More aloud thinkin... I have seen some times this thread appear on the list. One of the problems: you will have to force drivers to register in two file systems... Perhaps there are tools yet to do what I'm thinkin of: a ghost file system that just mirrors /proc, changing format of output. Say you clone the procfs to a fake fs driver (for example, procfs.xml) that just translates each fs access system call to /fproc/xml/path/to/file_or_dir (fproc==formatted proc) to /proc/path/to/file_or_dir reads its contents and reformats them to give the desired output (now thinkin on read-only, main people interest seems to be in syntax-ing the out of /proc). So actual /proc stays, not breaking anything, and theres a way to write proc info formatters. Even there could be many common code between all the possible procfs.XXXX things to ease maintenance. -- J.A. Magallon $> cd pub mailto:jamagallon@able.es $> more beer Linux werewolf 2.2.19-pre6 #1 SMP Wed Jan 3 21:28:10 CET 2001 i686 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/