On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 8:51 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think people who have problems parsing plain ASCII text are just > wrong. It's not that expensive. The thing that makes /proc/mounts > expensive is not the individual lines - it's that there are a lot of > them. I agree completely with the above. So why mix a binary structure into it? Would it not make more sense to make it text only? I.e. NAME=VALUE pairs separated by newlines and quoting non-printable chars. Thanks, Miklos
