From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, arjan@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] pmap: remove smaps files
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:22:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vew7riz1.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601222217.k0MMHDR9215012@saturn.cs.uml.edu> (Albert D. Cahalan's message of "22 Jan 2006 22:18:00 -0000")
On 22 Jan 2006, Albert D. Cahalan moaned:
> This patch removes the /proc/*/smaps files, which are obsolete
> and very awkward to parse. It's best to do this now, so that apps
> don't come to depend on the files. (not that app developers are
> likely to use the files at all, given the awful format)
Seconded. The *contents* are useful; the layout is not.
(I wrote a parser for smaps, it was horrible, moving to pmap
looks like it will be a joy)
> diff -Naurd 1/Documentation/filesystems/proc/pmap 2/Documentation/filesystems/proc/pmap
> --- 1/Documentation/filesystems/proc/pmap 2006-01-22 03:42:59.000000000 -0500
> +++ 2/Documentation/filesystems/proc/pmap 2006-01-22 03:24:43.000000000 -0500
Is this hunk really meant to be here? It doesn't look related to smaps
removal...
--
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driving living folks into the closet.' --- Rebecca Ore
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2006-01-22 22:17 [PATCH 2/4] pmap: remove smaps files Albert D. Cahalan
2006-01-25 23:22 ` Nix [this message]
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