Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System

[Jörn Engel]

On Wed, 3 May 2006 15:18:41 +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> 
> Of course! But the convention must be, that If userspace wants to
> access the data, it has to use our standard linux
> parser. If it accesses the data directly, this is broken.
> This ensures, that whitespaces do not matter at all! And as
> I said before, if you use the parser, you don't have any
> difference compared to the filesystem solution from a logical
> perspective.

o People are not forced to follow the convention.  If they don't and
  you break an existing application, you get the blame.
o Now you have a dependency on the standard parser, which is in
  userspace.  Any bug in any version of the standard parser and...

Jörn

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