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Date:      Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:19:40 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: parsing problem with /proc/N/status
Message-ID:  <20010818141940.B877@tao.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <xzpofpecp20.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:13:59AM %2B0200
References:  <20010817102549.A712@tao.org.uk> <xzpofpecp20.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:13:59AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
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> There is no good solution.  The ideal fix would be to use NUL
> characters instead of spaces to separate the fields (as is done for
> cmdline), but that would (obviously) break backwards compatibility.
> Replacing spaces with underscores like your patch does is a hack (and
> only a partial hack at that - the process name might contain a
> newline).  If we have to go down that road, I'd rather just encode
> whitespace and unprintables in octal notation (like ls -B does).

Sounds fair.  I don't particularly care, but as it stands it's next
to useless as it's unparsable.

Joe

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