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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com,
	viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Subject: Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:45:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <478EC131.8030103@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080116143051.ec488f3d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Seems like a plain bad idea to me.  There will be any number of home-made
> /proc/mounts parsers and we don't know what they do.
> 

There is a lot of precedent for adding fields at the end.  Since the 
last fields in current /proc/*/mounts are dummy fields anyway, it 
doesn't matter if the homegrown parsers concatenate the additional 
information to those.

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-17  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-16 22:12 [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-16 22:30 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-16 23:15   ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-16 23:43   ` Karel Zak
2008-01-16 23:58     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-17  0:09       ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-17  3:35         ` Al Viro
2008-01-17  0:33       ` Neil Brown
2008-01-17  1:17         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-17  8:55         ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-17 15:36           ` Chuck Lever
2008-01-17  2:45   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-01-17  3:33 ` Al Viro
2008-01-17  8:36   ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-01-17 10:34     ` Karel Zak

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