From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 5 07:04:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA26416 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 07:04:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (kcgw1.att.com [192.128.133.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA26385; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 07:03:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: by kcgw1.att.com; Fri Jun 5 09:04 CDT 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com ([135.44.192.112]) by kcig1.att.att.com (AT&T/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id JAA18557; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 09:03:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 10:03:15 -0400 Message-ID: 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... Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 10:03:14 -0400 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ---------- > 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