linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] binary stream format for /proc/stat

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Date:	Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:42:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] binary stream format for /proc/stat

On Tuesday 2012-03-27 10:53, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:

>Provides another format of /proc/stat for showing data in binary and
>compress sequence of Zeros to some extent.
>
>Any other idea of formats ?

Rather than adding more obscure formats and fields to /proc(/N)/stat, we 
should pursue descriptive lines like in /proc/N/status.
Or, if so desired, sysfs-style splitted attributes where the filename 
takes on the description.
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