Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 10:03:14 -0400 From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, mns@pobox.com Cc: mike@smith.net.au, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, jonny@jonny.eng.br, mike@dingo.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: kernfs/procfs questions... Message-ID: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8B14@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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> ---------- > From: Mark Shepard[SMTP:mns@pobox.com] > > Also, no one's mentioned Localization yet -- all the column headers & > other > fixed strings in the Linux procfs are in English. Translating these > to > other languages might break programs which read procfs (column > positions > might change, etc.) So procfs doesn't magically remove the need for a > UI > front-end program to view config. variables, unless you ignore > localization. > Better make no column headers at all. If somebody wants them - they can be easily added, even with localization by external programs. But there will be no need to use sed every time to get rid of these headers if you want to parse this output in some program. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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