Re: Suggested dual human/binary interface for proc/devfs

[G. Allen Morris III]

>>>George Bonser said:
 > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Mike Porter wrote:
 > 
 > I also like the idea of having two interfaces ... one where you can go
 > completely down the tree and get the value of each item. This is
 > particularly useful for places where you need to write something like a 0
 > or a 1 AND having a "file" that gives the output of everything below it in
 > the tree in the above format. I suggest a name of dump for the file. As an
 > example, /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf on my system might look like:
 > 
 > ls -l /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf
 > 
 > -r-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Apr 10 20:59 dump
 > dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Apr 10 20:59 all
 > dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Apr 10 20:59 default
 > dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Apr 10 20:59 eth0
 > dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Apr 10 20:59 lo

I would suggest that the dump file NOT be called `dump', maybe
`.dump' would be a better choice.

-r-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Apr 10 20:59 .dump
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Apr 10 20:59 all
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Apr 10 20:59 default
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Apr 10 20:59 dump
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Apr 10 20:59 eth0
dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Apr 10 20:59 lo

cat .dump

 > might produce this:
 > 
 > conf {
 >     all {
 >         accept_redirects=1
 >         accept_source_route=0
 >         bootp_relay=0
 >         ...
 >     }
 >     default {
 >         accept_redirects=1
 >         accept_source_route=0
 >         bootp_relay=0
 >         ...
 >     }
 > }
 > 

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       G. Allen Morris III