> How about just ignoring the problem for the /proc interface? Non of the
> suggested solutions would work well for simple shell-scripts anyway.
That is completely missing the point. A shell scripter would never be
EXPECTED to directly parse that format! You would do:
procdump --shell | my_parser
The whole point is not to make a format that is easily parsable by any
particular method but to make a format that can be fed to a "pre-parser",
if you will, that converts the format to any number of different formats.
The key is having a standard root format so that a standard dump program
can be built to spew output for HTML parsers, XML parsers, shell script
parsers, etc., and yet STILL BE READABLE if dumped directly to the screen.
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