"Brown, Len" <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > good for shell scripts, not clear it is better for C programs > that have to open a bunch of files by name. Moreover, it means that the factual data is only made available as a nice textual string, that then has to be parsed by shell scripts and other programs to get the factual data again. So I feel much for /dev/xxx approach, together with the already mentioned small utilities like 'batstat' for shell scripts. -- Johan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html