Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff]

[Alexander Viro]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Tim Jansen wrote:

> On Sunday 04 November 2001 18:41, you wrote:
> > The "fuzzy parsing" userland has to do today to get useful information
> > out of many proc files today is not nice at all. 
> 
> I agree, but you dont need a binary format to achieve this. A WELL-DEFINED 
> format is sufficient. XML is one of them, one-value-files another one. The 

And thinking before defining an API is the third.  Guess why XML is so
popular alternative...