From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com,
viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Subject: Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:45:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <478EC131.8030103@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080116143051.ec488f3d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Seems like a plain bad idea to me. There will be any number of home-made
> /proc/mounts parsers and we don't know what they do.
>
There is a lot of precedent for adding fields at the end. Since the
last fields in current /proc/*/mounts are dummy fields anyway, it
doesn't matter if the homegrown parsers concatenate the additional
information to those.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-17 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-16 22:12 [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-16 22:12 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-16 22:30 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-16 23:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-16 23:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-16 23:43 ` Karel Zak
2008-01-16 23:43 ` Karel Zak
2008-01-16 23:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-17 0:09 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-17 0:09 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-17 3:35 ` Al Viro
2008-01-17 0:33 ` Neil Brown
2008-01-17 0:33 ` Neil Brown
2008-01-17 1:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-17 8:55 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-17 8:55 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-17 15:36 ` Chuck Lever
2008-01-17 15:36 ` Chuck Lever
2008-01-17 2:45 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-01-17 3:33 ` Al Viro
2008-01-17 3:33 ` Al Viro
2008-01-17 8:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-17 10:34 ` Karel Zak
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