Re: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage.
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:17:00 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Perry Harrington wrote:
>
> Not to keep beating a dead horse, but I'd like to solidify the standing
> of endianess in numbers in /proc. I've already proposed creating generic
> formatting routines for /proc info, and I think that the output should be
> big endian for Hex, Binary, and Decimal, as it's significantly easier
> to read and parse.
I really don't want big endian. I'm used to little endian, and I think
it's fundamentally wrong to prefer one over the other. So if anything is
confusing now, it's not getting better by changing the byte order. It
should just be printed out in a format where byte order doesn't matter.
Linus
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