On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 01:50:43AM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote: > Certain files in procfs are formatted in byteorder dependent ways. For > example the IP addresses in /proc/net/udp. > > Assuming the byteorder of the userspace program is not guaranteed to be > correct in the face of emulation as for example with qemu-user. > > Also this makes it easier for non-compiled applications like > shellscripts to discover the byteorder. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Why not put this in /sys/kernel/ instead? What does this have to do with /proc/ other than it's traditionally been the dumping ground for stuff like this? :) thanks, greg k-h
