Re: /proc guidelines and sysctl

[david parsons]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Marcin Dalecki  <[e-mail]> wrote:

>root:/proc# cat meminfo 
>        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
>Mem:  64577536 62787584  1789952 20643840  1339392 17186816
>Swap: 139821056 36478976 103342080
>MemTotal:     63064 kB
>MemFree:       1748 kB
>MemShared:    20160 kB
>Buffers:       1308 kB
>Cached:       16784 kB
>SwapTotal:   136544 kB
>SwapFree:    100920 kB
>
>Wonderfull!!!! The same data twice, albeit no one of them easly
>parsed!

    Eh?  Both formats are very easy to parse;  the first two lines
    are parsed in a snmp-type fashion (pick up the format in the
    first line, use that to decypher the Mem: and Swap: lines) and
    the rest is a simple tag assignment.

Easly parsed? By what?

    C, like G-d himself intended.

>Really man sysctl *is* much much saner and what should be
>"depricated" is /proc

    To make sysctl useful you'd have to do proc, and in that case you
    might as well just use proc in the first place.

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