Re: [PATCH] 2.5 PROPOSAL: Replacement for current /proc of shit.

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Sat, 3 Nov 2001 14:36:02 +0100 (CET)


On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 Telford002@aol.com wrote:

> > solution: keep the type information out of the proc filesystem and save it
> > in a file similar to Configure.help, together with a description for a
> file.
> It would always be possible to build a front end to the /proc file
> system.

The approach taken by powertweak (http://www..powertweak.org) was to
use an XML description of /proc to define types etc. It's worked out
quite well, and has the added advantage of being buzzword compliant 8)

Dave.

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