Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff]

Alexander Viro
2001-11-04T18:38:14Z

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Tim Jansen wrote:

> On Sunday 04 November 2001 18:41, you wrote:
> > The "fuzzy parsing" userland has to do today to get useful information
> > out of many proc files today is not nice at all.
>
> I agree, but you dont need a binary format to achieve this. A WELL-DEFINED
> format is sufficient. XML is one of them, one-value-files another one. The

And thinking before defining an API is the third. Guess why XML is so
popular alternative...