Messages in this thread | | | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Subject | Re: /proc/net/dev: candidate for reformatting | Date | Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:28:38 -0500 (EST) |
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> From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net> > >> Why are there headings then? > God knows.. They'd have been binary files if I had got there first.
Compromise please! 0-padded hex with fixed offsets gives a human readable file that is also _very_ machine readable.
The headings are no problem: add enough spaces for future expansion. Maybe even let heading+padding total 512 bytes. That way programs can just seek past the heading to get to the data at some fixed offset.
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