Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2012 03:21:53 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [patch 7/7] fs, notify: Add procfs fdinfo helper v6 |
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On Saturday 2012-11-17 00:56, Andrew Morton wrote: >> | pos: 0 >> | flags: 02000000 >> | inotify wd: 3 ino: 9e7e >> | inotify wd: 2 ino: a111 >> | inotify wd: 1 ino: 6b149[...] > >This is a lousy output format. It's sort-of like a sensible set of >name-value tuples: "name:value name:value name:value" but > >c) inotify-wd is secretly printed in decimal while everything else > is in hex. > >What happens if we do something like the below (which will require a >changelog update)? > >@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static int show_mark_fhandle(struct seq_ > f.handle.handle_type = ret; > f.handle.handle_bytes = size * sizeof(u32); > >- ret = seq_printf(m, "fhandle-bytes: %8x fhandle-type: %8x f_handle: ", >+ ret = seq_printf(m, "fhandle-bytes:%x fhandle-type:%x f_handle:", > f.handle.handle_bytes, f.handle.handle_type);
Why don't we actually make sure to print a 0x prefix when it's hex and 0 on octal? Then it should be clear what base these lines are in. (That would also be a good idea for the rest of procfs files, but I reckon they cannot be easily changed.)
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