Re: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage.

Jon Peatfield (J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk)
24 Oct 1998 03:06:11 +0000

> There are no byte order problems with "123.456" - everybody agrees
> that it is a floating point number somewhere between the integers 123 and
> 124.

Actually some places use 123,456 (123.456 is 123456 to them) so it is
really LOCALE specific. However, I'll shut up before someone actually
suggsts making /proc output LOCALE specific :-)

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Jon Peatfield,  DAMTP,  Computer Officer,   University of Cambridge
Telephone: +44 1223  3 37852    Mail: J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk


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