Re: Yet another design for /proc. Or actually /kernel.

[antirez]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 04:44:50PM -0800, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> At 01:20 AM 11/8/01 +0100, antirez wrote:
> >/proc/mounts will be:
> >
> >((rem)(mounted filesystems))
> >((format)(device)(mountpoint)(type)(option)(dump)(fsck))
> >((data)(dev/hda1)(/home/mbrennek/stuff and)(vfat)(rw)(0)(0))
> >((data)(/dev/hda2)(/var/tmp)(ext2)(rw)(0)(0))
> >((rem)(number of filesystems mounted))
> >((format)(mount_count))
> >((data)(2))
> 
> Looks a little like LISPTH.  Flex and Bison to the rescue!
> 
> (signed) anonymous

I'm really a newbie. Maybe I missed the whole point but
stay sure you don't need flex and bison to parse this.
It's _really_ simple, you need little code of little
complexity, to get something of flexible that can be
used for long time.

If you don't trust me I can write a little C library to parse
this just for provide a proof.
This isn't only simple to parse, but even simple to generate,
that's an important point.

regards,
Salvatore