linux-kernel - Re: [patch 7/7] fs, notify: Add procfs fdinfo helper v6

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Message-ID: <20121117071039.GA22855@moon>
Date:	Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:10:39 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>,
	Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@...il.com>,
	aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, bfields@...ldses.org,
	oleg@...hat.com, rientjes@...gle.com, tvrtko.ursulin@...lan.co.uk,
	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 7/7] fs, notify: Add procfs fdinfo helper v6

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 03:56:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> This is a lousy output format.  It's sort-of like a sensible set of
> name-value tuples: "name:value name:value name:value" but
> 
> a) it has lots of random pointless whitespace after the colons and
> 
> b) several of the labels have spaces in them, just to make life
>    harder for parsing code and
> 
> c) inotify-wd is secretly printed in decimal while everything else
>    is in hex.
> 
> What happens if we do something like the below (which will require a
> changelog update)?

Looks good for me, Andrew. The only reason for such whitespace rich format
was to make output column aligned. But it's fine to have name:val as well.
I'll update. Thanks!

	Cyrill
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