On 12-Apr-2000 dean gaudet wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Matt Aubury wrote:
>
>> The recent debate about the multitude of possible formats for data in
>> /proc caused me to think about a short-hand way of populating a /proc
>> directory hierarchy. This scheme uses a format string to describe the
>> hierarchical data layout, so:
>>
>> create_proc_entries(NULL,
>> "test:{bar:{x:%d,y:%d,z:%d},foo:%f}",
>> &x, &y, &z, foo_fun);
>
> printf-style stuff sucks whenever you use more abstract types. for
> example, try to printf() an off_t... there's no portable way to do it.
> %u is right on some unixes, %qu on others. you have to resort to
> autoconf
> or other config time tricks to create some garbage like:
There's a better solution, at least for C89: cast to long, and always use
%ld. Drat, looks like the new standard broke perfectly some good code
with long long again.
J
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