Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff]

[Tim Jansen]

On Monday 05 November 2001 23:59, Erik Andersen wrote:
> Come now, it really isn't that difficult:
>     if (sscanf(line, "%4u %4u %llu %s", &major, &minor, &size, name) == 4)
>     {
> 	add_partition(name, size, major, minor);
>     }

But how can the user know this without looking into the kernel? Compare it to 
/proc/mounts. Proc mounts escapes spaces and other special characters in 
strings with an octal encoding (so spaces are replaced by '\040'). 

bye...