On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 04:44:49PM -0800, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote: > Dominique Martinet writes: > > > But, really, I just don't see how this can practically be said to be parsable... > > In its current form it never will be. The solution is to place > this variable-length field last. Then you can "cut -d ' ' -f 51-" > to get the command+args part (assuming I counted all those fields > correctly ...) > > Of course, this breaks backwards compatability. It would also break forwards compatibility in the case new fields needed to be added. The only solution would be a libxo-style feature wherein a machine-parseable format is exposed by virtue of a file extension. Examples: 1. /proc/pid/stats.json 2. /proc/pid/stats.xml 3. /proc/pid/stats.yaml_shouldnt_be_a_thing Thanks, -- Shawn Webb Cofounder / Security Engineer HardenedBSD https://git.hardenedbsd.org/hardenedbsd/pubkeys/-/raw/master/Shawn_Webb/03A4CBEBB82EA5A67D9F3853FF2E67A277F8E1FA.pub.asc
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