Re: procfs problems
Stefan Monnier (monnier+/news/lists/linux/kernel@TEQUILA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU)
16 Apr 1997 18:12:53 -0400
o.r.c@p.e.l.l.c.h.i.i.l.u.s (david parsons) writes:
> can be used even when /usr/bin has gone south for the winter. One of
> the lessons of Windows NT is that even though a binary registry can
> be nice for writing simple-minded gui tools, it's a real bitch when
> something gets corrupted. Human readable text, on the other hand, is
> amenable to deal with when your display tool is toast.
I don't knwo about you, but I don't consider your sh-script as a human.
I could do the exact same script with a binary format /proc if we could put
something more than just sh in /bin.
Oh well, I know that Unix is the reign of text and strings, so I'm not going
to change that in this list. Go ahead with your strings everywhere and we'll
just keep on parsing/unparsing/parsing/unparsing/...
Stefan