/proc & xml data
Um, I'd have to say that putting one value in a file with a directory as a grouping would probably be a nightmare to maintain as well as navigate through. In essance you could end up with more files in the /proc than on the rest of the filesystem filesystem (excluding the /dev dir). It would start to have the whole proc tree look like something from /proc/sys/net/ipv4. Although the /proc/sys/net/ipv4 probably needs to have one value in a file as some of these are settable on from the console, other fiels that are not changable (like /proc/meminfo, proc/cpuinfo etc) would be a waste in one value per file.
Isn't the /proc supposed to be a 'friendly' interface into the kernel?
Anyway it was a more of a question.
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was wondering if anyone had ever considered storing some of the data in xml format rather than its current format? Things like/proc/meminfoand cpuinfo may work good in this format as then it would be easy to write a generic xml parser that could then be used to parse any of the data. "MemTotal: %8lu kB\n"
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In the case of the meminfo it would be a matter of changing the lines in
fs/proc/array.cfunctionget_meminfo(char * buffer)from"MemTotal: %8lu kB\n"
to something like
"%8lu kB\n"
The general consensus is that if we have a major reorganization, in proc the rule will be one value per file. And let directories do the grouping.
Eric
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