Re: LSB1.1: /proc/cpuinfo

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>]

Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>:
> It's more than just a name.
> 	a) granularity.  Current "all or nothing" policy in procfs has
> a lot of obvious problems.
> 	b) tree layout policy (lack thereof, to be precise).
> 	c) horribly bad layout of many, many files.  Any file exported by
> kernel should be treated as user-visible API.  As it is, common mentality
> is "it's a common dump; anything goes here".  Inconsistent across
> architectures for no good reason, inconsistent across kernel versions,
> just plain stupid, choke-full of buffer overruns...
> 
> Fixing these problems will _hurt_.  Badly.  We have to do it, but it
> won't be fast and it certainly won't happen overnight.

I'm willing to work on this.  Is there anywhere I can go to read up on 
current proposals before I start coding?
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