Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:12:25 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My experiences with Rust Message-ID: <202508221712.57MHCPDl008201@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <aKiWZ1I3pqZSOsfk@kib.kiev.ua> References: <aKiWZ1I3pqZSOsfk@kib.kiev.ua>
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-------- Konstantin Belousov writes: > In both cases, it was a common theme to retrieve system information in > the binary format by a direct syscall invocation, then provide a user- > or machine-friendly output format for consumption. I appreciate this is not the main subject of your email, but I just want to interject that the problems you solved should not have existed to begin with. It's 2025 and we still export binary formats from the kernel, instead of something usable and sensible ? I mean, seriously ? Poul-Henning Aka: the guy who added kern.geom.confxml in 2002 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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