Re: procfs problems

Miguel de Icaza (miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx)
15 Apr 1997 12:42:28 -0500


> Those of you interested in discussing design flaws with the current procfs
> filesystem, take a look at
>
> http://www.anime.net/~goemon/procfs.html
>
> I invite comments.

Well regarding your /proc/cpuinfo format, I think we could fix this
problem by just making sure that the very first line of the cpuinfo
holds the port name.

Something like:

/proc/cpuinfo:
port : {i386,alpha,sparc,ppc,mips}

And then, if people want to parse any of the extra information, they
should know the architecture specific information on the CPU before
attempting to parse it.

Miguel.

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