Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:48:49 +0900 | From | Hitoshi Mitake <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] lockstat: export data in python expression |
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On 2011年03月01日 03:07, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 00:00 +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote: >> I'm writing the tool for parsing and arranging the data of /proc/lock_stat >> in python. But I soon found that lock_stat is hard to parse, so I wrote >> this patch to let lock_stat output its information in python expression. > > _IF_ we're going to do something like this, I'd much prefer a sane > output format over something that's easily parseble by just one thing. > >
Does "by just one thing" mean that the ioctl() for format setting should not be allowed? I have to admit that this patch adds lots of ugly if and switch statements. If I have to choose just one style in order to forbid increasing expressions, I'd like to choose S-expression because it is easy to parse by any language. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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