From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] net: Make it easier to parse /proc/net/dev contents.
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:57:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B44263D.20604@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100105155052.13309.1197.stgit@firesoul.comx.local>
Le 05/01/2010 16:50, Jesper Dangaard Brouer a écrit :
> The contents of /proc/net/dev is annoying to parse, because
> it changes whether there is a space after the "ethX:" or not.
> It depends upon the size of the "Receive bytes" counter,
> if the number is below 7 digits, then there is whitespaces
> else if the number is 8 digits or above there is no space
> between the ":" and the number.
>
> This patch changes the output to assure there is always a space
> between the ":" and the number. Given that all existing userspace
> application already need to handle the whitespaces, I see
> no breakage of existing tools.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-05 15:50 [net-next PATCH] net: Make it easier to parse /proc/net/dev contents Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2010-01-06 5:57 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-01-07 8:59 ` David Miller
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