Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 1999 23:19:21 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: /proc/cpuinfo verbiage differ unnecessarily between ports... |
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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Glen Turner wrote: > Felipe Eduardo Gonzalez wrote: > > Whenever this comes up though people say cpuinfo is for human eyes > > only, it should not be parsed. But when someone suggests making a syscall > > for it, everyone decries that idea too. > > WHat would be nice would be a standard, something like this > > number_of_cpus: 1 > > cpu_type: K6-2 > > cpu_manufacturer: AMD > > cpu_speed: 350Mhz > > bogomips: 680.2 > As the author of some SNMP code, I'd like to see the *whole* > of /proc adopt a consistent, simple to parse, simple to read, > simple to write structure.
I bitched about this in 1997.
http://www.anime.net/~goemon/procfs.html
The response I got was that procfs didnt need standards, it didnt need to change, and wasnt going to change.
Note: a few things have changed since I wrote this, but not much.
-Dan
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