James Manning said:
>> I appreciate that any programs making use of these files would need
to
>> be checked to see if they work with the new format, but other than
>> that, are there any problems with doing this?
>
>People start trying to do things like
> echo 1 minute > /proc/sys/kernel/panic
>and expecting it to work :) After all, the whole idea of the interface
>is it looks/acts like a small text file, right?
That and numbers don't have to be translated into foriegn languages in
order to be useful to people who don't (yet) speak english.
Rob
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