Re: procfs problems

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Wed, 16 Apr 1997 10:37:39 +0200


On Apr 15, root wrote:

> How about:
>
> architecture 80x86
> platform pc-at
> cpu 80486
> cpu_vendor AMD
>
> (Tabs to separate fields. Fields may contain spaces.)

DON'T use <TAB> as field separator, please!
learn from the flaws e.g. from "make".

there are so many characters which we really won't need for coding /proc/xyzzy stuff
that using non-printable characters is a bad bad idea.

Harald

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