From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: joeja@mindspring.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc & xml data
Date: 29 Oct 2000 23:54:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1n1fmhl9b.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39FCDB16.B0955558@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: Joe's message of "Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:21:11 -0500"
Joe <joeja@mindspring.com> writes:
> I remember hearing about various debates about the /proc structure. I
> was wondering if anyone had ever considered storing some of the data in
> xml format rather than its current format? Things like /proc/meminfo
> and cpuinfo may work good in this format as then it would be easy to
> write a generic xml parser that could then be used to parse any of the
> data. "MemTotal: %8lu kB\n"
>
> In the case of the meminfo it would be a matter of changing the lines in
> fs/proc/array.c function get_meminfo(char * buffer) from
>
> "MemTotal: %8lu kB\n"
>
> to something like
>
> "<memtotal>%8lu kB</memtotal>\n"
The general consensus is that if we have a major reorganization, in proc
the rule will be one value per file. And let directories do the grouping.
Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-30 7:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-30 2:21 /proc & xml data Joe
2000-10-30 6:54 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2000-10-30 12:33 ` Moritz Schulte
2000-10-30 23:20 ` Olaf Titz
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