You're letting me out as a human, fair enough ;-)
> Secondly, it is possible to implement a table formatter which kicks in
> when someone does a read() on a directory. This is not a desirable format:
> look at /proc/mounts when you have a mount point with a space in it for a
> good example.
Yes, sold, if implementing the formatter is part of the plan.
Caveat: by profiling I've found that file ops on proc functions are already
eating a significant amount of cpu, going to one-value-per-file is going to
make that worse. But maybe this doesn't bother you.
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