Re: Linux-2.5.17

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Wed, 22 May 2002 19:36:01 +0100

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:17:53PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> OK. You convinced me that 'version' isn't needed. But how about
> 'formats'? Currently quotaon(8) uses this field to check which format it
> should try to turn on... I can live without it as quotaon(8) might try
> new format and if it doesn't succeed it will try the old one but
> anyway...

Each sysctl file is only supposed to carry one bit of information - one
number, one string. There should be no formatting of data.

Have a look at /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* as an example.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


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