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

Martin Dalecki
2001-11-06T12:57:46Z

Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Tim Jansen wrote:
>
> > But how can the user know this without looking into the kernel? Compare it to
> > /proc/mounts. Proc mounts escapes spaces and other special characters in
> > strings with an octal encoding (so spaces are replaced by '\040').
>
> Ah, yes - the horrible /proc/mounts. Check that code in 2.4.13-ac8, will
> you?
>
> Yes, current procfs sucks. We got a decent infrastructure that allows
> to write that code easily. Again, see -ac8 and watch fs/namespace.c
> code dealing with /proc/mounts.
>
> No need to play silly buggers with "one value per file" (and invite the
> Elder Ones with applications trying to use getdents()). Sigh...

Getdents() can be removed since 2.0 times. I never noticed *any*
application
actually using it.