From owner-cvs-all Wed Feb 14 10:19:46 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.aciri.org (iguana.aciri.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E887937B491; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:19:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.aciri.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1EIJXL86384; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:19:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200102141819.f1EIJXL86384@iguana.aciri.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha trap.c src/sys/dev/acpica/Osd OsdSchedule.c src/sys/i386/i386 genassym.c swtch In-Reply-To: <20010214173256.B1587@roaming.cacheboy.net> from Adrian Chadd at "Feb 14, 2001 5:32:56 pm" To: adrian@FreeBSD.org (Adrian Chadd) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:19:33 -0800 (PST) Cc: rwatson@FreeBSD.org, des@ofug.org, jburkholder0829@home.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > sysctl is designed for numerical or binary data return > procfs (or any synthetic fs) is designed for text based data return > The trouble here that I see is that people are inventing overly-complex > methods of representing the data when they could just export it in > text format. what is so special about text ? a FS knows nothing about data format. Maybe what you mean is that text is "self describing", assuming that you know more or less what is in it ? cheers luigi ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . ACIRI/ICSI (on leave from Univ. di Pisa) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . 1947 Center St, Berkeley CA 94704 Phone: (510) 666 2927 ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message