And the generation will get nearly impossible for the Kernel.
> As
> this has to be done by user level programs only (I do not think, that
> the kernel has to do any parsing of its own files), this should not be
> that much of a problem. I am currently not aware of programs that are
> *this* timing critical when accessing files in the /proc
> hierarchy.
They are. You dont want to wait 5minutes for ps to parse a few 100 /proc
files. And you dont want gated to sleep a few seconds only to read a 40k
long routing table.
> These programs can always resort to flex/yacc which makes
> parsing very straight-forward and is usually quite fast.
*yuck* Compared to index() or strtok flex is notvery fast.
Gruss
Bernd
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